BIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eukaryote, Tyrone Hayes, Acrosome

• School: Howard University
• Department: BIOL - Biology
• Course: BIOL 101
• Professor: Gordon Williams

Document Summary

Dubois (do-boys) phd died in ghana, chose to go in exile, civil right activist, historian, scholar, writer, attended harvard: was actually not the first african american to get phd at harvard. Dr. tyrone hayes: lived in the country by a swamp in south carolina, professor at california of berkeley. Studies frogs is a curious scientist, wants to know how things works and why they happen, wondered why frogs were deformed: studied atrazine herbicide males were feminized. Acrosome fertilizes the egg, not the tail (the tail breaks off: all of your mitochondria comes from the mother because the father"s mitochondria is in the tail. Note from dr. williams: make people know who you are. Biology is a complex composition that includes statistics and chemistry. 3 domains: unicellular: bacteria, archaea (lack nuclei & membrane bound organelles, often multicellular: eukarya (nucleus) Atoms small/medium/large/humungous molecules cells colonial organisms or cell specialization tissues organs organ systems multicellular organism.