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| appearance of new characteristics at a given level of organization |
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| new characteristics of an appearance; "2 for the price of 1" |
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| ability to sense environment and react to it |
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| 1st Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Law of Conservation of Energy; energy's neither created nor destroyed |
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| 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
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| physical systems tend to proceed toward a state of greater disorder or entropy |
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| states chloroplasts and mitochondria were once separate organisms, which we know b/c their DNA is distinctly different from the cell's nuclear DNA |
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| 5 Things on Nature of Science |
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1. guided by natural law
2. has to be explained by reference to natural law
3. testable against observable world
4. conclusions are tentative and not necessarily final word
5. falsifiable |
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| Hypothetic-deductive Method |
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| scientific process of making a conjecture and then seeking empirical tests that potentially lead to rejection |
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| seek to understand proximate or immediate causes that underlie functioning of biological systems at a time and place |
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| seek to address q's of ultimate causes and rely largely on use of comparative method rather than experimentation |
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| factors responsible for the origin, state of being, or purpose of a biological system |
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| Ernest Mayr's 5 Major Themes |
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1. perpetual change
2. common descent
3. multiplication of species
4. gradualism
5. natural selection |
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| Phylum Euglenozoa/Sarcomastigophora |
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Subphylum Euglenida/Mastigophora---Euglena viridis
Subphylum Kinetoplasts (Zooflagellates)---Trypanosoma brucei gambiense/rhodescience/brucei, T. cruzi |
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| Phylum Retortamonada and Diplomonads |
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Endoparasites/Class Coccidea---Eimeria tenella, Taxoplasma gondii, Plasmodium (Malarial organism)
Parabasalids---Trichomonas vaginalis
Entamoebidae---Entamoeba histolytica, Radiolarian |
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| Class Demospongiae---bath sponges |
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Class Hydrozoa---hydroids, fire corals
Class Scypozoa---"true" jellyfish
Class Cubozoa---cube jellyfish
Class Anthozoa---sea anemones, stony/soft coral
Class Staurozoa---odd animals topped with medusa |
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Class Turbellaria---free living flatworms
Class Trematoda (Flukes)---Fasciola hepatica (sheep liver), Clonorchis sinensis (human liver), Schistosoma (blood flukes=mansoni, japonicium, haemotobium)
Class Monogenea---parasitic flukes
Class Cestoda---Subclass Eucestoda (tapeworms)---Taenia saginata (beef), Taenia solium (pork), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish) |
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| Phylum Nemertea/Rhynchocoela |
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Class Monoplacophora---limpets, small w/rounded shell
Class Polyplacophora---chitons
Class Gastropoda---limpets, whelks, conches, periwinkles, Opistobranches (sea slugs/hares/butterflies, canoe shells), Pulmonates (land/freshwater snails/slugs)
Class Bivalvia/Pelecypoda---mussels, clams, scallops, oysters, shipworms
Class Cephalopoda---squids, octopuses, nautiluses, devilfish, cuttlefish
Class Caudofoveata and Scaphopoda |
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