BIO SCI 1A- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)

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What"s it all about: life and this university. Intellectual development: curiosity, openness, tolerance, understanding others, adventure. Key elements in syllabus: come to class, exam provisions, 3 exams of 40 multiple choice questions, grading structure. Extra credit: answer correctly question posed at beginning of class, or during class, credit: 1 exam question, unless otherwise indicated. Imaginary scenario: adrift in a skiff (skiff = small boat: a ghoulish senario, background, family of three - mother, father, and son: mother and father in 40s, son is. 20: family is rich, owns yacht, and yacht sinks in pacific with all three on board, they survive for a couple of weeks without food and water in a skiff (skiff. The overriding impulse is that everybody is self-serving. The driving force of evolution is self-serving behavior. We care for some people more than the others (i. e. parent/child, since child carries 50% of the parent)(i. e. people who can carry on our genes)