General Biology/Introduction
- life; evolution; biology;
- what is life?;
- order, evolutionary adaptation, regulation, reproduction, response to the environment, growth and development, energy processing;
The study of life reveals common themes edit
- here, organization, information, energy and matter, interactions, evolution;
- levels of biological organization; biosphere; ecosystems, communities, populations, organisms, organs and organ systems, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules,
- reductionism,
- emergent properties,
- systems biology;
- structure and function;
- cell; eukaryotic cell; prokaryotic cell;
- DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
- genes; DNA; DNA encoding; proteins;gene expression;
- DNA; mRNA; Protein; transcription; translation; protein folding; genomics; proteomics; proteome;
- bioinformatics;
- producers; consumers;
- energy flow; chemical cycling;
- ecosystem; molecules; organisms; feedback regulation;negative feedback; positive feedback;
- evolution;
The Core Theme: Evolution accounts for the unity and diversity of life edit
- evolution; Theodosius Dobzhansky;
- Grouping Species;
- three domains of Bacteria; Archaea; Eukarya;
- dual nature of unity and diversity;
- Charles Darwin;
- On the Origin of Species;
- descent with modification; natural selection;
- Darwin developed his theory;
- evolution; natural selection;
- the tree of life; natural selection; family tree;
In studying nature, scientists make observations and form and test hypotheses edit
- science; inquiry; observation; data; inductive reasoning; hypothesis; sometimes case study;
- experimental variables and controls;
- experiment; variables; controlled experiment; independent /dependent variable; theory;
- science; cooperative approach;
- cooperation; model organisms; technology;
Reference edit
Jane B. Reece et al.(2014), Campbell Biology Tenth Edition, Chapter 1 Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry