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Title: Lecture 01 Intro to Ecology


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Lecture 01Intro to Ecology
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  • Ecology What is it?
  • From
  • Oikos (Greek)
  • Logos
  • Study of the study of interaction of organisms
    with one another and their environment
  • Involves understanding of
  • biotic factors (biology)
  • Abiotic factors- things like?

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Basic properties of Living Things
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  • Classifying the Diversity of Life Taxonomy
  • Three domains
  • Six Kingdoms
  • Do kings play chess on fine grained sand?
  • Species
  • Common name vs. Scientific name
  • Honey bee
  • Apis metilifera or Apis metilifera

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  • How we know what we know scientific method
  • Observation
  • Question
  • Hypothesis
  • Experiment
  • accept/reject hypothesis

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  • Theory What we know
  • deductive reasoning
  • inductive reasoning
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