BIOL 1F25- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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When confident take the library and course policy quiz found on the tests & This quiz is due by september 20th at 6pm. Biology: study of living organisms and life"s processes. Defining features of humans (taken together, humans have all of these whereas other species may not have them all): bipedalism (walk using just two legs, opposable thumbs, large brain, capacity for complex language. Population: group of same species (group of bats, group of monkeys) Biosphere ecosystem community population organism organ. System organ tissue cell molecule atom. Science: both knowledge and the process used to obtain that knowledge, relies on observation and experimentation. Generalization: drug x lowers blood pressure in all mammals: hypothesis: drug x would be a safe and effective treatment for high blood pressure in humans. Blind: placebo effect, thinking you have taken drug x when you"ve been. Double-blind: researcher doesn"t know if the patient has been given drug x.
