BIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nuclear Membrane, Cytoskeleton, Peptidoglycan
24 Jan 2017
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Variousness in genes and characteristics: it causes biodiversity by: Ecological factors: get rid of one species in food chain=destroy environment. Protectors: environment, fitness, adaptation, and selection. Fitness: an organisms suitability to its environment. E. g australia: you bring in animals to get rid of other animals affecting the environment: then when the other species can"t compete they get removed from the environment. What is bioremediation: problems in environment caused by man. Mines: metals leaking out from mines that invade food/water etc. Major unifying concept of biology: population: group of individuals from same species tht live in same area and regularly interbreed, scientific method: Trend noticed = test trend (hypothesis) and determine whether it"s a forecastable, testable statement. Hypothesis: early stages of an idea or model: based on observation of a trend. Analyze data: this results in a theory being produced. Theory: hypthosis widly accepted by the scientific community via rigorous experimentation and retesting (replication with the.
