BIO SCI 94 Lecture Notes - Punctuated Equilibrium, Polyploid, Neoteny

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIO SCI 94
• Professor: Nancy Aguilar- Roca

Document Summary

Mon, 1/6: define the 3 domains of life, bacteria, prokaryotes b, bacterial systems inside humans. Important for ecosystems, human disease, health, etc: prokaryotes, live in extreme habits extreme salts, cold, etc, archaea, animalia, eukaryotes, explain the phrase unity in the diversity of life. Despite all the diversity, there are things that unite us. Example, dna we all have the same four nucleotides of dna: describe a family tree of organisms, state a hypothesis, recognize a controlled experiment. A tentative answer to a well-framed question an explanation on trial. One that is designed to compare an experimental group with a control group. Wed, 1/8: compare and contrast lamark"s hypothesis of acquired characteristics and darwin"s. Lamark: life evolves as environments change: use and disuse idea: body parts used become extensively larger, those not used deteriorate, inheritance of acquired characteristics: organisms pass these modifications to offspring.