BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beagle, Uniformitarianism, Botany

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

Document Summary

Analogy analogous characters are those in different animals that serve the same function. They have been modified for the same function even though they are not related to each other. Bicarbonate most available carbon is present as dissolved bicarbonate ions (hco3-) in the ocean. Carbon cycle although carbon moves somewhat independently in sea and on land, a common atmospheric pool of co2 creates a global carbon cycle. It is the global circulation of carbon atoms, especially via the process of photosynthesis and respiration. The largest reservoir of carbon is in sedimentary rock but rocks are in the unavailable inorganic compartment. Carbonate salts some organisms in marine food webs build shells and other hard parts by incorporating dissolved carbon into calcium carbonate (caco3) and other insoluble salts. Catastrophic theory cuvier was noticing that sedimentary rocks contained the remains of animals that had survived in the past but had somehow disappeared.