SCI 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Cytosine, Adenine
3 Feb 2015
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Biology is the scientific study if life living things. Biologists recognize life as a series of characteristics shared by all we define life through the properties that living things display an object is alife if and only if it displays all of these properties simultaneously. Reproduction like begits like - all organisms reproduce their own kind. Growth & development information carried by genes controls the pattern of growth in all organisms. Energy use energy every organism takes in energy, converts it to useful forms, and expels. Order each living thing has a complex but well-ordered structure. Cells all living organisms consist of cells trillions some living organisms have just one cell, but others have. Response to the environment all organisms respond to changes in the environment environment within narrow limits even when the external environment changes alot. many of these responses help to keep an organism"s internal.
