BIOL 111 Final: BIOL 111 - Final Exam Review
2 Nov 2017
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The hierarchy of biology: molecular biology tissues, cells on down, health sciences tissues, organs, organisms, ecology up from organisms, communities, ecosystems, to the. Organisms, population, community (groups of species living together) biosphere biosphere (all communities on planet) Scienti c method: based on experimental design: control experiments, control groups, single vs. multivariable. Reliability of results depends on driven by ideology peers: skepticism: informed skeptic vs. pseudoskepticism, reproducibility: research is not always accepted by, peer review, well-tested and widely accepted hypothesis, well-accepted pattern in data. Observation -> question -> hypothesis -> test hypothesis -> result -> new. Imagine an oil spill in a lake caused by faulty equipment. Ecology: the branch of biology that deals with the relations and organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. It is, literally, the study of where living organisms live. Environmental science: broader, interdisciplinary eld in which ecologists work with other physical, chemical, and biological ologists" to solve environmental problems.
