01:830:123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Systems Biology, Organism, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:123
• Professor: L.Stein

Document Summary

Chapter 1- evolution, the theme of biology, and scientific. "we recognize life by what living things do: properties of life, order, evolutionary adaption, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, response to the environment, reproduction. Concept 1. 1- the study of life reveals common themes. Five themes (ways of thinking about life: organization. Theme: new properties emerge at successive levels of biological organization. Levels of biological organization (hierarchy: the biosphere. The green you see in space: ecosystems. Array of animals, fungi, plants: population, multiple organisms living in a specific area, organisms. Individual living thing: organs and organ system, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules, reductionism- reduces complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study, ex. Structure and function: biological structure hints at what something does and how it works, correlation between structure and function, ex. Archaea (archaean sing. : characteristic: no nucleus (has dna and membrane, eukaryotic- contains membrane-enclosed organielles, ex. Theme: life requires the transfer and transformation of energy and matter.