ENV-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carl Linnaeus, Incandescent Light Bulb, Radiation Damage

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Radiation damage to humans: genetic internal damage from beta particles and gamma rays, somatic tissue damage. Thermodynamics: study of energy and its transformations. Closed system does not exchange energy with surroundings (rare in nature) Open system exchanges energy with surroundings. Energy conversion laws: first law of thermodynamics. Energy can not be created or destroyed (the law of conservation of. Energy can be changed from one form to another: second law of thermodynamics. When energy is changed from one form to another, there is always less usable energy and energy quality is depleted (heat) U. s. 16% average efficiency, 84% wasted. Ecology: the study of how organism interact with other organism and the non-living environment. Organisms: any form of life, prokaryote- cell with no nucleus. Bacteria: eukaryote- cell with a nucleus. Modern taxonomy: taxonomy- the classifications of organisms. All organisms are classified into specific groups according to common characteristics (includes fossils: carolus linnaeus wrote systema naturae in 1735.

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