01:119:115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 62: Prokaryote, Aqueous Solution, Evaporative Cooler
5 Apr 2016
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Evolution: process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today. Systems biology: exploration of a biological system by analyzing the interactions among its parts. Emergent properties: due to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases. Prokaryotic cell: lacks a nucleus or other membrane enclosed organelles. Proteomics: study of sets and proteins and their properties. Bioinformatics: use of computational tools to store, organize, and analyze the huge volume of data. Feedback regulation: output or product of a process regulates that very process. Most common form is negative feedback, a loop in which the response reduces the initial stimulus. Positive feedback: end product speeds up its own production. Levels of biological organization: the biosphere, ecosystems, communities, populations, organisms, organs and organ systems, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules. Compound: substance consisting of two or more different elements combined in a fixed ratio. Isotopes: different atomic forms of the same element.
