BIOA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grand Prismatic Spring, Sciatic Nerve, Extremophile
12 Sep 2015
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Life- the universe is a very big place. Its billions of galaxies contain countless planets and stars. One galaxy called milky way is our home. In one small corner of this vast and lonely space . lies a precious and amazing world. It contains something that in all of our searching, we have found nowhere else. This year, we will learn some of there. We will be studying life on earth for this term with 3 modules: A few creature to find funny and interesting which will be coming later to study in the course: tardigrades (water bears): it"s a tiny creature; you have to look it under microscope to see it. It"s segmented as an insect and it can also survive in space. It can survive for 10 years without water and food. And it will only loose its 10% of water: grand prismatic spring (yellowstone): this is also organism.
