BIOL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fish Farming, David Schindler, Taq Polymerase
22 Dec 2016
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Ecology is a vitally important scientific discipline. Fundamental research helps us to understand the natural world. Provides insights into humanity: ends up with surprising and applicable findings. Watson and crick fundamental research (why are chemicals shaped that way, and what processes shape it) Best and banting understand processes that govern physiology of animals (dogs) Thomas brock studying microbes that can live in very hot areas (yellowstone park: at the thermal vents, is there microbes that can survive there, found a microbe taq dna polymerase. David schindler using whole lake research to discover why are some lakes highly produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e, (cid:449)hile others are(cid:374)"t phosphorus and eutrophication. Moti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) to e(cid:272)ologist (cid:862)i see a problem; ho(cid:449) (cid:272)a(cid:374) i sol(cid:448)e it? (cid:863: lack of sustainability the fact that ecosystems are becoming decreasingly valuable in their community, lack of biodiversity. Concept of genetic quality, how it affects the fitness of wildlife. Concurrency ho(cid:449) (cid:373)o(cid:373) a(cid:374)d dad"s ge(cid:374)es (cid:449)ork together.
