BIOL-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Decomposer, Archaea, Blood Sugar
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Chapter 1 biology: exploring life: all forms of life share common properties, living things, are ordered. Change form and shape in terms of development: process energy, regulate their internal environment. Toward some optimal condition: temperature, ph of blood, blood sugar, etc, respond to the environment. Biotic and abiotic: adapt and evolve, order of life levels: molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, communities, in life"s hierarchy of organization, new properties emerge at each level. Biosphere: the zone of air, land and water at the surface of the earth in which living organisms are found; the sum of all the ecosystems of the earth. Ecosystem: all the organisms living together in a given area along with the nonliving factors with which they interact in a dynamic equilibrium. Community: all of the organisms living and interacting in a given area excluding the abiotic environment.
