BIOLOGY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chromosome, Archaea, Prokaryote

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Each organism interacts with its environment, which includes other organisms as well as nonliving factors. Both organism and environment are affected by the interactions between them. The dynamics of any ecosystem include two major processes: the cycling of nutrients and the flow of energy from sunlight to producers to consumers. In most ecosystems, producers are plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert light energy to chemical energy. Consumers are organisms that feed on producers and other consumers. All the activities of life require organisms to perform work, and work requires a source of energy. The exchange of energy between an organism and its environment often involves the transformation of energy from one form to another. In all energy transformations, some energy is lost to the surroundings as heat. In contrast to chemical nutrients, which recycle within an ecosystem, energy flows through an ecosystem, usually entering as light and exiting as heat.

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