BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organelle, Category Theory, Reductionism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1070
• Professor: Shoshanah Jacobs

Document Summary

Variables and patterns change as we move along the levels of nested hierarchies. For example, the patterns involved in going from a cell to a tissue is much different than going from a population to a community (in biological organization). What does stay consistent is that a tissue is composed of many cells, just as a community is comprised of many populations. Homework question 1: today we mentioned the concept of hierarchy as an important theme in biology. Based upon their structures, which of these hierarchies is not like the others: the biol 1070 course structure, university administrative staff, pack structure of wolves, military organizational structure, russian matryoshka dolls. Homework question 2: generally, the biological levels of organization are organized into a nested hierarchy. But, which of the following levels doesn"t follow a nested organization: cell, organ system, population, community, ecosystem.