BSC-1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chlorophyll, Chloroplast, Natural Selection
2 Oct 2016
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Because of chlorophyll in chloroplast located in plant cells. Have a rigid structure because of cell walls made of rods of cellulose. Fungi are not plants! b/c nutrition is different. D. to preserve natural environment + understand it to harness what plants can give us. D. 1. medicine, herbs, resources: major objective = increase yields of agriculture (fd production) California most of our h2o goes to agriculture!! E. 3. productivity depends on availability of fertilizer + h2o. How do we classify plants and other organisms: carl linnaeus laid foundations for current classification system. Established hierarchy of kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, Kingdoms include bacteria, animals, protists, plants, fungi remember with kings play chess on glass stools! animals = more closely related to fungi than plants: before linnaeus . Polynomial system (descriptions) just the binomial system: after linnaeus. We now classify based off of genetic relatedness (evolutionary) Natural selection (favorable mutations will be passed on-- ones that help survival), etc. helps with classification!
