BIOL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hominidae, Chordate, Deductive Reasoning
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Pre-reading quizzes 5% iclicker questions 5% Tree of life, three domains: bacteria, archaea, and eukarya. Information (genetic: growth & development, evolution, order, reproduction, regulation of internal environment. How to memorize: king philip came over for great soup. Marking genus and species genus capitalized, species in lower case. Alfred russel wallace had the same idea of evolution as darwin but darwin published his work first. Scientific theory: an explanation for a broad class of phenomena or observation which has been verified to some degree. Design and carry out manipulation, collect data. Hypothesise testing: state the hypothesis and make predictions, design an experimental study. Nondisjunction when one set of homologs fail to separate. Klinefelter syndrome 2 x chromosomes and 1 y chromosome. Each cell produced by meiosis ends up with a different combination of chromosomes and this leads to variability. X linked recessive: females often carriers, more males affected. X linked dominant: more females than males affected.
