BIOL 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Inductive Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering, Abscissa And Ordinate
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1940s and 50s before vaccines against these diseases available: 5 diseases caused total estimated 900,000 cases of disease & 7700 deaths/year. By 2004, only 27 deaths total (99. 6% reduction) # measles cases dropped from >500,000/year before measles vaccine available 62 cases/year recently: but recently, in # measles & whooping cough (both highly sensitive to vaccination rates) cases. 1. 2 how humans fit into the natural world: living things are grouped according to their characteristics, categories of classification: domain, kingdom, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species. Bacteria: single celled, prokaryotes (no nucleus); most of bacteria we"re familiar with. Protista: kingdom which has unicellular and relatively simple multicellular eukaryotes like protozoa, algae, and slime molds. Animalia, plantae, and fungi all have multicellular organisms; differ based on life cycle, structure, and nutrition mode. Plants have chlorophyll (green pigment that captures sunlight energy) Photosynthesis: turn light energy energy for own use.
