BIOL 1107K Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Binomial Nomenclature, Design Of Experiments, Extracellular Fluid

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Biology: the scientific study of living things. Cells: the simplest structural unit of a living organism. In multicellular organisms, many individual cells serve as the building blocks of tissues and organs. Nucleic acids: a polymer made up of nucleotides, specialized for the storage, transmission, and expression of genetic information. Proteins: long-chain polymer of amino acids with twenty different common side chains. Occurs with its polymer chain extended in fibrous proteins, or coiled into a compact macromolecule in enzymes and other globular proteins. Prokaryotes: unicellular organisms that do not have nuclei or other membrane-enclosed organelles. Eukaryotes: organisms whose cells contain their genetic material inside a nucleus. Includes all life other than the viruses, archaea, and bacteria. In multicellular organisms, the division of labor such that different cell types become responsible for different functions within the organism. Metabolism: the sum total of the chemical reactions that occur in an organism, or some subset of that total.

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