BIO152H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 4, 5: Glycosidic Bond, Dehydration Reaction, Phosphate
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Evolution: the process of change that results in organisms adapting to the environment. Emergent properties: properties that are not present unless specific circumstances occur or the parts are arrangement in a specific way. Ex: photosynthesis will not take place unless there is a specific arrangement of molecules inside the chloroplast, the mind will not function if there is damage. Reductionism: the approach of reducing complex systems to simpler components for the purpose of study. Systems biology: an approach that attempts to model the dynamic behaviour of biological systems based on the interactions between their components (think of the. Bacteria and archaea are prokaryotic: the dna is not separated from the rest of the cell by a membrane, and no nucleus is present. Eukaryotic: the cell is subdivided by internal membranes into organelles, including a nucleus that contains the cell"s dna. Chromosomes contain all genetic material in the form of dna.
