[BI110] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (95 pages long)
Document Summary
Evolution and life on earth and energy and matter. Energy in the form of nutrients enters and can take many different forms. Atp contains energy in high forms(covalent chemical bonds where the energy is obtained) Nucleotide sequence determines the amino acid sequence of the proteins. Lots of organism encode similar nucleotides (with proteins) Human vs. chimpanzee genome(nucleotide sequence level) is 96% the same. Human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long(4% of. 2 humans at least have . 1% difference in their nucleotide sequence. * the theory of evolution is the cornerstone of modern scientific understanding of life* Natural selection: have genetic diversity within a population, and evolution/natural selection is an interaction between genetic diversity and the environment between which the organisms live. Peppered moths in an interaction between changes in the environment. Individuals don"t evolve, but only the population as a. Individuals don"t evolve, but only the population as a whole change over time.
