BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peptide, Archaea, Louis Pasteur
31 Oct 2014
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Taxonomic categories: the organization of taxonomic grouping arranges organisms in sets, each set is then grouped with other sets into a larger set, the major taxonomic categories from most inclusive (biggest set) to least inclusive (smallest set) are, domain, kingdom, phylum (division, class, order, family, genus, species, ( dear king phil came over for gene"s special) Spontaneous generation refuted: mid 1800s louis pasteur ( broth in flask is boiled to kill preexisting microorganisms, as broth cools, condensing water collects, sealing the mouth of the flask (prevents movement of air between inside and outside, he didn"t see any signs of new life after sealing it, if neck is later broken off, outside air can carry microorganisms into both, shows that life isn"t just spontaneous, something must happen, spontaneous life does not happen now but at some point in the past it had to have happened spontaneously to start everything.
