BIOL 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Railways Act 1921, Flashlight, Heritability
23 Dec 2019
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Chapter 1: themes in the study of life. Themes in the study of life: order, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, reproduction, response to the environment, evolutionary adaptation, biosphere, ecosystems, communities, population, organisms, organ and organ systems, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules, atoms. Organisms interact with other organisms and the physical environment: every organism interacts with its environment, including non-living factors and other organisms, both organisms and their environment are affected by the interactions between them, ex. Beavers western pond turtles: beavers alter a slow-moving stream into a pond that is suitable for western pond turtles. Structure and function are correlated at all levels of biological organization: structure always reflect function, structure and function of living organisms are closely related. Forward and reverse: each link of the chain is one of four kinds of chemical building blocks called nucleotides and nicknamed a,g,c, and t. Dna-sequencing machines: genomics: study of sets of genes within and between species.
