BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Know Thyself, Scientific Method, Simple Cell
20 Oct 2015
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Oxymoron: a figure of speech with contradictory terms. Tautology: unnecessary repetition of meaning using dissimilar words. We were natural and now we are not (technology) Fear of nature/separation: non natural bodies. Three types of knowledge: science based scientific knowledge (400 y. o) knowledge generated using the scientific method, which can be performed by anybody. Traditional knowledge has constant input and output from many people : faith (10 000 y. o) body of information generated relatively quickly by authority to explain human interaction with the environment. Belief, hope, feeling, trust in a higher power. Faith knowledge has an authority figures that generates and information towards others that accept it or not. The job, or the roll of all species as it relates to other species and its environment. Changes in the environment can cause changes in niche. Ecological role that an organism fills in an ecosystem: geographic differences: yamana vs. shelknam, temporal differences: finches.
