BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Pedometer
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Office hours: davis building 3059 are before and after lunch. Mastering biology is online, code available in textbook. Midterms are multiple choice, final exam is a mix of multiple choice and written answers. iclicker. com use your utorid not your student number. Study for exams, but also do practice tests; use various questions from recall, application, and synthesis. Bio = life, ogy = to study; biology = to study life. Organisms obtain and use energy, are made up of cells, process information, replicate, and as populations, evolve. These relationships can be estimated by analysing similarities and differences in traits. Species that share distinctive traits are closely related. All living organisms share five fundamental characteristics: replication, made up of cells, evolve, use energy, has genetic information, ie a genome. The food competition hypothesis argues that long necks evolved because those with long necks can outreach other animals, getting more food.
