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Emergent properties of life
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respond to stimuli
homeostasis growth and development adaptation to environment |
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Why is homeostasis important?
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homeostasis is important because cells require appropriate conditions for organisms to maintain a constant internal condition even though the external environment may change
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What do cells require?
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cells require proper temperature, pH scale, and concentration of diverse chemicals
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3 things
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Cold Climate?
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Polar bears have body structures to withstand low temperatures and conserve body heat
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a bear
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Hot Climate?
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camels maintain a good amount of internal body fluids and store food in their humps to survive
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In the desert
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What are the 6 kingdoms of life?
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Archaea (eukaryotic: methanogens), Bacteria (eukaryotic: chlamydia), Protista ( prokaryotic: Algae), Animalia (prokaryotic: panther tigris), Fungi (prokaryotic: mushroom), Plantae (prokaryotic: green plant)
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3 part as well
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Difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?
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prokaryotic lacks a membrane bound nucleus and eukaryotic have a membrane bound nucleus and other membrane bound organisms
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2 Ways Organisms obtain energy?
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sun and food
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3 Assumptions that underlie all scientific inquiry?
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- this is an inflexible procedure
-based on the idea that natural phenomena have natural causes -requires evidence to logically solve the problems |
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What is a cell?
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The smallest unit of life
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What is the cell theory?
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All living things that are made up of cells
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Who developed the cell theory?
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- Matthias Sheidon
-Theodor Schwann -Rudolph Virchow |
M.S T.Sc R.V
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Ex. Inductive Reasoning
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Everyone in my class have on a Gordon T-shirt at GSC, so everyone has a Gordon T-shirt
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Ex. Deductive Reasoning
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If I ask people do they have a Gordon t shirt, then I can tell if it's a true assumption
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Description of Francesco Redi?
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He was an Italian physician who tested the spontaneous generation belief
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Observations?
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He observed that flies swam around the meat in the open and maggots appeared on the meat
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Hypothesis?
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Maggots come from flies
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Experiment?
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He got 2 jars and put a piece of meat in both. 1 jar was left open with no top and the other had a quaze on it to keep flies out
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Conclusion?
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He concluded that flies are a source of maggots and spontaneous generation of maggots does not occur
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What are controls important?
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Because they give the baseline that the experiments subject are compared to
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