BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Electronegativity

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1020
• Professor: Min Zhong

Document Summary

Chapter 1: introduction: science is a way of learning about the natural world doesn"t prove absolutely. Open to revision: process includes making educated guess (hypothesis, scienti c method, testable, repeated, ongoing, needs communication. Internet: biology - the study of life and organisms, characteristics of living organisms. Levels of organization: the living and non living world is organized in many levels, life can be studied at different levels of organization, eukaryotic - complex, membrane enclosed organelles, prokaryotic - simple, lack membrane enclosed organelles. *energy ows through an ecosystem, usually entering as light and exiting as heat. * a systematic thought process: inductive reasoning - general > speci c, deductive reasoning - speci c > general. Chapter 2: chemistry of life: element - substance that can"t be broken down. *trace: required by organism in minute qualities: atoms - smallest unit (proton, neutron, electron)