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TOPICS:
Scope of Biology
Evolution, Unity and Diversity
Scientific Process
Biology and Everyday Life
What is science?
from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge" is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe and the things around us.
“knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world."
Scope and limits of science.
-does not address some questions, such as “Why do I exist?” (gives subjective answers – based from personal experience)
-does not address the supernatural, or anything that is “beyond nature”
-Science helps communicate our experience without bias so it may be as close as we can get to a universal language.
We have encountered only a fraction of the organisms that live on Earth
Scientists constantly discover new species. Extinction rates are accelerating
BIOLOGY
Benefits: new species are discovered new technologies & medicines to cure diseases are discovered food production was improved human health to prolong life was improved
NATURE AND LIFE
Nature- Everything in the universe, except what humans have manufactured
Evolution
In biology, evolution can be defined as any change in the heritable traits (physical traits ex. skin color, hair, eyes, etc of an organism) within a population, across generations .
Life’s Levels of Organization
Matter
- anything that occupies space and has mass
- consists of atoms which combine to form molecules
Life’s Levels of Organization
Atom- Fundamental building block of all matter (living and nonliving things)
Elements- Are made up of atoms joined together chemically
Cell- Smallest unit of life
Organism
- An individual; consists of one or more cells
UNITY
Overview of Life’s Unity
All living things have similar characteristics
Require energy and
Scope of Biology
Evolution, Unity and Diversity
Scientific Process
Biology and Everyday Life
What is science?
from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge" is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe and the things around us.
“knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world."
Scope and limits of science.
-does not address some questions, such as “Why do I exist?” (gives subjective answers – based from personal experience)
-does not address the supernatural, or anything that is “beyond nature”
-Science helps communicate our experience without bias so it may be as close as we can get to a universal language.
We have encountered only a fraction of the organisms that live on Earth
Scientists constantly discover new species. Extinction rates are accelerating
BIOLOGY
Benefits: new species are discovered new technologies & medicines to cure diseases are discovered food production was improved human health to prolong life was improved
NATURE AND LIFE
Nature- Everything in the universe, except what humans have manufactured
Evolution
In biology, evolution can be defined as any change in the heritable traits (physical traits ex. skin color, hair, eyes, etc of an organism) within a population, across generations .
Life’s Levels of Organization
Matter
- anything that occupies space and has mass
- consists of atoms which combine to form molecules
Life’s Levels of Organization
Atom- Fundamental building block of all matter (living and nonliving things)
Elements- Are made up of atoms joined together chemically
Cell- Smallest unit of life
Organism
- An individual; consists of one or more cells
UNITY
Overview of Life’s Unity
All living things have similar characteristics
Require energy and