Including test questions

Genes, Cells & Evolution Complete summary lectures week 1 - 12

Year: 2024

University of Queensland Tons of visuals All college notes from all lectures To the point in plain English Including test questions

Basis: Biology - A Global Approach, Global Edition Neil A. Campbell

9781292341637 Pearson

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Summary of Lectures from Week 1 to Week 12 Introduction to Biology Natural wold is filled with forms of life Elements that unify all life on Earth oStructural order oNeed of energy oAbility to reproduce Matter is general term for the substance that make up all physical objects Energy is defined as the capacity to do work or cause change   Taxonomy way to classify groups in biological systems oAristotle Father of Taxonomy oCarl Linnaeus developed hierarchies based on morphological characteristics and pioneer of the binomial nomenclature 3 / 10

oDKPCOFGS Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species oAristotleand Linnaeus operated under the Doctrine of fixed species (that the species doesn’t change at all, it doesn’t develops) oLamarck refuted by use and disuse (don´t use it you lose it) Theory flawed Organism may change during its lifetime (but difficult to pass) Theory of evolution by natural selection oDarwin Theory Realize that life form weren’t fixed and that they evolve He saw the similarities of the embryos, family tree theory, and when they evolve the species evolve and that all the animals are related Evolution lead to Diversity and Unity oSimilarities in their skeletal structure oEvolution is a conservative process, modifies the same basic design again and again oExistence of Homologies in which set of genes conserve and some Biological evolution is a process that results in heritable changes in population over time Physical Traits and how are they inherited oDNA oGenes are encoded on DNAGenetic code consists of squences of just

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