BIOL 1117 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Notes
4 Jan 2018
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Holistic approach to treating your body (what goes into your body and medical treatment: recognizes the phenomenon of emergent properties, ex. How does a x b lead to effects and properties: how new properties can arise in the system from individual interactions. We are more than the sum of our parts . Kidneys can develop differently in individuals after birth: ex. Branching in aortas in different individuals: ex. Winter vs summer: environment in general, hot, wet, cold, dry environments, variation found within species (intraspecific, ex. Differences between any group of animals: ex. Bats bmr in different colonies: variation found among species (interspecific, ex. Heart rate in an elephant is much higher than that of a mouse: pay attention because physiological variations are real and have an impact on medical treatments, ex. An active immune response or reproduction: ex. Loss of homeostatic control causes illness, disease, or death: negative feedback loop, ex.
