BIOL 1201 : Exam 1 Study Guide
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Formulate, write: what is science, a body of knowledge, an approach to understanding nature, scientific method: Science: what is biology, the study of life, what is life, what are characteristics of living systems, organization, energy use, development, reproduction, evolution, response to the environment. Basic chemistry introduction: scale of nature, what scales are biologists interested in, atomic scale, 10-8meters, smallest end of the scale, community/ecosystem scale, 106meters. Basic chemistry atoms: atom, atom, smallest unit of matter separable by normal chemical means, smallest unit of matter that retains all of the properties of that element, subatomic particles: 1: atomic number and atomic mass, atomic number, equivalent to the number of protons in an atom, atomic mass, equivalent to the number of protons and neutrons in an atom (approximately) Isotopes: variants of an atom, have a different atomic mass, a different number of neutrons.
