Bio 1060 Chapter 1

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Bio 1060 Chapter 1

• Exploring Life

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Questions

• How are your values affected by the natural world
  and your knowledge of it
• How do your values impact the natural world
• How does biological knowledge relate to your
  values
• How do your values impact your acquisition and
  use of biological knowledge

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Introduction

• Define life
• Describe the scale of the universe
• Describe the scale of life

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Interactions

• Describe the interactions of organisms with
• Each other
• The environment
• Name several factors which organisms share (use
  jointly)
• Compare and contrast the flow of energy and
  nutrients in organisms and the environment

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Unity and Diversity

• Define the hallmarks of life
• Discuss the characteristics that unify all living
  things
• Discuss the diversity in the world of life
• Explain its origin

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Cells

• Why are cells important in the world of life
• Describe the activities that occur in cells
• Name the molecule that is central to all life
• Describe the processes associated with it
• List the functions of that central molecule

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Types of Cells

• Name the two types of cell
• Compare and contrast them
• What makes it possible for a prokaryotic organism
  to use genetic information from a eukaryotic cell
  to make a useful molecule
• e.g., bacteria produce human insulin

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Systems Biology

• Define systems biology
• Describe it
• Discuss how systems biology relates to all levels
  of the hierarchy of biological organization
• Describe the systems strategy
• Name the 3 key research developments that helped
  achieve the ascendancy of systems biology

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Homeostasis and Feedback

• Define homeostasis
• Discuss the relationship between homeostasis and
  feedback mechanisms
• Compare and contrast the 2 types of feedback
  mechanisms
• List the effect of each
• Give example/s of each

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Taxonomy

• Describe the weirdest organism you know about
• Group these diverse organisms in a logical manner
• Describe the value of taxonomy

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Domain

• Describe the usefulness of the new, higher
  category the domain
• Describe the characteristics of each domain
• Name the next lower category and describe the
  members of each
• Evolution Connection p. 29

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Charles Darwin

• Describe what you know / have heard about Charles
  Darwin
• Discuss the ideas he introduced
• Describe his observations and his inferences from
  them

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Evolutionary Relationships

• Describe the diagram biologists use in describing
  evolutionary relationships
• Describe the evidence that allowed the
  evolutionary relationships of the Galapagos
  finches to be determined
• Describe how the anatomy of the vertebrate limb
  shows relatedness of the various types of
  vertebrates

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Reasoning in Science

• Describe the 2 types of logic used in science
• Discuss their relationships to the 2 types of
  science

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Snake Mimicry

• Describe warning coloration
• Describe the experiment investigating mimicry in
  snake populations
• Discuss the factors to be controlled to falsify
  the hypothesis
• Describe how the scientists controlled for
  variables
• Describe the conclusion
• Describe the data on which it is based
• Scientific Inquiry p. 29

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Applications

• Describe the ways in which biological knowledge
  may be important now and in the future
• For you
• For society
• Science, Technology and Society p.29