Biology 1002B Lecture 1: Cycle 1 Lecture 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1002B
• Professor: Denis Maxwell

Document Summary

"how evolution works" - underlying concepts will be explored and adapted in this course. Chlamydomonas: a model system ?? is scientists" jargon for a particular species of animal that has been developed over many years to be experimentally powerful to answer particular questions: green algae, distinctly related to plants (has chloroplasts) Chlamy: uses light in 2 different ways: has chloroplast, uses light as source of energy, uses light to sense its environment, like human eyes, at the eyespot, nothing to do with photosynthesis. Genome: the haploid set of chromosomes in a gamete or microorganism, or in each cell of a multicellular organism