BIOL 1001 Lecture : Bio Notes 1
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What is life, nonliving things, sand, water, shells, air clouds, living things, fish, seaweed, crabs, people, seagulls. Growth involves the conversation of materials acquired from the environment into molecules of the organism"s body. Living organisms reproduce: give rise to offspring which allows for the continuation of life reproduction process differs between organisms. Living organisms, collectively, have the capacity to evolve. Evolution occurs through the process of natural selection. The process by which organisms with specific adaptations reproduce more successfully than others. Ex: giraffes with long necks can reach food that others cannot. Therefore they can reproduce more: all identified life forms possess these seven characteristics, are viruses alive made up dna or rna with a protein coat. Three major categories or domains: bacteria, archaea. Eukarya: how do scientists categorize the diversity of life, within the three domains organisms are further classified, kingdom> phylum> class> order> family> genus> species, binomial naming scheme:
