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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Jane B. Reece et al.(2014), Campbell Biology Tenth Edition, Chapter 1 Evolution, the Themes of Biology, and Scientific Inquiry