All life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor, thus creating diversity through morphological differences and unity through shared molecular and genetic makeups. Big Idea 2 says biological systems utilize energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and maintain homeostasis; all organisms on Earth use DNA or RNA to store genetic information and pass it on to their offspring, and due to this scientists are able to examine differences in DNA base sequences between species and draw conclusions on the data. In Big Idea 3, it states that living systems store, transmit, and respond to information vital to life processes. The act of Batesian mimicry exemplifies this Big Idea; the predated animal mimics an unsavoury species in order to avoid predation, and the predator avoids the mimic animal because they believe consuming the animal would be harmful, or at least unpalatable to them (Sherratt, 2008). The last Big Idea says that biological systems interact with those interactions having complex properties. The previous example can apply to this Idea as well; the phenotypic makeup of a species can differ depending on what traits are selected, and whether or not the trait is selected depends on if organisms with that trait can survive predation from other species and produce fertile
All life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor, thus creating diversity through morphological differences and unity through shared molecular and genetic makeups. Big Idea 2 says biological systems utilize energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and maintain homeostasis; all organisms on Earth use DNA or RNA to store genetic information and pass it on to their offspring, and due to this scientists are able to examine differences in DNA base sequences between species and draw conclusions on the data. In Big Idea 3, it states that living systems store, transmit, and respond to information vital to life processes. The act of Batesian mimicry exemplifies this Big Idea; the predated animal mimics an unsavoury species in order to avoid predation, and the predator avoids the mimic animal because they believe consuming the animal would be harmful, or at least unpalatable to them (Sherratt, 2008). The last Big Idea says that biological systems interact with those interactions having complex properties. The previous example can apply to this Idea as well; the phenotypic makeup of a species can differ depending on what traits are selected, and whether or not the trait is selected depends on if organisms with that trait can survive predation from other species and produce fertile