LIFESCI 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chromosome, Testability, Repeatability
9 Sep 2017
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The pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence. Goals: find ideas that can withstand long and hard evidence-based arguments, process that requires creating hypotheses and to dispassionately critique them, by mastering scientific concepts and theories, only are we able to particupate in the discussion. Found that for salamanders, they weren"t pluripotent, but muscle scs can only make muscles, cartilage scs make cartilage : generality of principles. Laws in science are generalities, making them more applicable to different events: generality- the establishment of universal principles; operate throughout the natural world. If no, then perform new experiments and analysis: draw conclusions, communicate results. Idiogram- diagrammic representation of a chromosome complement or karyotype. Spectral karyotyping is a modern technique for karyotyping humans. 1923, theophilus painter reported there were 48 chromosomes in human cell.
