BIOL 1115- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 102 pages long!)

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1115
• Professor: terrikanner

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1. 1 principles of biology and the levels of organization. 1. 3 end at a hypothesis is a proposed idea . List the 12 principles of biology and briefly describe the first 10: cells are the simplest unit of life, organisms maintain an internal order. The simplest unit of organization is the cell: living organisms use energy, organisms need energy to maintain internal order. Due to the transmission of genetic material, offspring tend to have traits like their parents: populations of organisms evolve from one generation to the next, populations of organisms change over the course of many generations. List the 10 hierarchical levels of biological organization and briefly describe each (figure 1. 5 - exploring. Levels of biological organization: atoms, molecules and macromolecules, cells, tissues, organs, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere. What is the difference between a(n: atom and a compound/molecule, cell and a tissue, population and community, community and ecosystem tissue and an organ.