Lecture Number One Flashcards

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Order

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All living thing consist of one or more cells with highly ordered structures
Internal order within the species

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Grow and develop

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Increase of size and mass

Number of cells increase - duplication

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Energy utilization

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To maintain order, living things need energy
Process known as metabolism
Plants are the most important organism with transformaing energy

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Regulation

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Homeostasis
Self correcting internal envrionment
Keeps the body fucntioning
Must be maintained to live

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5
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Stimulis

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Fluctuations above a set point (temp)

Stimulus are detected and trigger the body to respond

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Reprodcution

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Creating new offspring

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7
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Asexual reproduction

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Can reproduce without another individual

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Sexual reproduction

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Creates new offspring that have genetic material from two different membersw

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9
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Evolution

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Need to adapt to changes in te environment

Through evolution processes

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10
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Two mechanisms of evoltionary chnage

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Vertical descent

Horizontal gene transfer

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Vertical descent

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Changes in lineage
New species evolve by mutations
Natural selection

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12
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Horizontal gene transfer

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Exchnage between different species

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