BIOL 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Venus Flytrap, Acer Saccharum, Systems Biology
25 Oct 2016
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Biology is the scientific study of life; it is a quest about the nature of life. A(cid:374) orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)s" adaptatio(cid:374)s to its e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, su(cid:272)h as adaptatio(cid:374)s for o(cid:271)tai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)utrie(cid:374)ts, are the result of evolution (the process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today. These adaptations allow this plant to survive in nutrient poor conditions. 8 themes that will still hold true decades from now, and help you organize and make sense of all info in biology: theme: new properties emerge at each level in the biological hierarchy. The study of life extends from the microscopic scale of the molecules and cells that make up organisms to the global scale of the entire living planet. Emergent properties are novel properties that emerge at each step upward in the hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases.
