BIOS 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
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E for living organisms ultimately derived from the sun. H2o using light e: living things maintain stable internal environment by process of homeostasis homeo= similar, stasis= standing, organisms maintain internal environment different from external environment. Population: a group of individuals of one species in a particular location: species: kind of organism, natural selection: mechanism explains how evolution occurs, ex: evolution by natural selection (pg. Ex: evolution of beetle coloration: light and dark ones, light ones eaten more dark beetles. Each week, spray 1 group with 20% nitrate fertilizer dissolved in h2o (experimental group) Each week stray 2nd group with h2o only (control group: results: average height over 4 months control experimental. 25 cm: statistical analysis of data shows: Always possible future evidence can cause theory to be revised: ex: theory of evolution, ex: theory of relativity, law, theory which has been validated over long period of time.
