BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Persea, Laurales, Avocado
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Organism - any living creature, either unicellular or multicellular. Taxon (pl; taxa): a group of organisms. Organisms that can make their own food. Metabolism: ability to respire, photosynthesis, digest etc. Sensing and responding to the environment: homeostasis. Organizing information about species (hint: king philip came over for great soup) Species a group of interbreeding individuals. Genus/genera includes 1 or more species. Hypothesis/hypotheses: a possible explanation(s) of a specific phenomenon. Prediction: a claim about what can be expected in nature, based on the premises of a theory or hypothesis. Deductive reasoning: using a general idea to make a conclusion about a specific case. Test: an attempt to produce actual observations that match predicted or expected observations. Report: a statement about whether a theory or hypothesis should be accepted, modified, or rejected, based on tests of predictions derived from it. Molecular biology: structure and function of biological macromolecules. Cell biology: study of cell structure and function.
