BIO120H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Part 5: Metabolic Water, Arteriole, Bipedalism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO120H1
• Professor: Frederickson M. Wright S.

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Bio120: struggle for existence, james d. thomson (part 5 . Physiological ecology as a way of thinking about organisms) In association with lecture 15 & 16 and reading quiz 7. In biological sciences, we focus on tangible physicochemical attributes and natural causes of living entities; we stay within the realm of direct evidence even within that scope, we look at an organism in different ways. Informationally viewed, we"re all twigs on that tree we have a phylogenetic position on that tree, with understandable relationship to others that can be inferred from similarities and differences in our dna. Information lets us classify organisms in term of relatedness into taxonomy that has analogous characteristics to a pedigree. All organisms have restricted spatial distributions if environmental factors in particular habitat are too harsh for a particular species, it will not be able to persist there.