BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Continental Drift

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Erasmus darwin: latin (taxonomy) to english, temple of nature (poem, story of evolution of living things on planet. Rock cycle: magna rst rock on world (core, oceans develop sediments. Carbon cycle: equal amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean that there is in the air, has a huge thing to do with carbon dioxide in air and perception, something going on its very slow uniform. Continental drift: lyell doesn"t know about continental drift, gets accepted 1950s, same organism ended up on different continents. Caco3: this is where all sediment rock comes from. Wallace: came up with the idea of natural selection, support of darwin explanation of natural selection. Homology : common function but doesn"t share a common ancestor. Analogous : in different animals that serve the sam function. Pasteur: life from life not spontaneous, germ theory, cell theory -fundamental unit of life, all living things are made of cell. Microevolution - small scale changes that happen in populations.