BIOL 102 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Phytophthora Infestans, Botulism, Chloroplast
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Unit i: introduction, taxonomy, origin of life, survey of. Unit ii: survey of plants, plant structure, plant nutrition and. Biology 102 includes a survey of life on earth and an introduction and overview of human anatomy and physiology. In order to organize the study of life, one of the first things early biologists did was to develop a system of classifying and organizing living things. Taxonomy provides a means of scientifically organizing living things so that they may be analyzed and studied. Aristotle - the father of the biological sciences , first taxonomic system. System flawed because scientifically valid characteristics were often not used in determining the categories. Created "binomial nomenclature" identifying each organism by their genus and species, ex. Homo sapiens in which homo is the genus and sapiens is the species: created other taxa for classification purposes: (learn these in order)
