BIO 1305 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Dna, Covalent Bond, Protein
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Some properties of life: order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, energy processing growth and development, response to the environment, reproduction. Ways of thinking about life that will still hold true decades from now: organization, information, energy and matter, interactions, evolution. Life can be studied at di erent levels, from molecules to the entire living planets. Biosphere: all life on earth and all the places where life exists. Ex: regions of lands and bodies of water. Ecosystems: all the living things in a particular area, along with the nonliving components of the environment with which life interacts. Communities: the array organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem. Including many kinds of plants, various animals, mushrooms, fungi, and enormous numbers of diverse microorganism such as bacterias. Species: a group whose members can only reproduce with other members of the groups. Population: all the individuals of a species living within the bounds of a speci c area.