Evolution: descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from the present-day ones. Biology: the scientific study of life. Emergent properties: new properties that emerge with each step upward in the hierarchy of life‚ owing to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increases. Systems biology: an approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems based on a study of the
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MEN BEHIND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION & DISCOVERIES I- Introduction “He had in fact most of the qualities that make a great scientist: an innate curiosity and perceptiveness regarding natural phenomena‚ insight into the heart of a problem‚ technical ingenuity‚ persistence in seeing a job through and that physical and mental toughness that is essential to the top-class investigator.” - Leonard Colebrook (1883 - 1967) Scientists are known by their discoveries‚ inventories‚ theories discovered
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Differences among junk science‚ scientific fraud and mistakes in science 1. What is meant by junk science? Junk Science is typically used as a weapon against gullible people to obtain recognition and/or compensation for something that is not valid. Typically the media‚ politicians‚ lawyers and even government officials will use unfounded and skewed data to sensationalize a particular scenario to push an agenda for some ulterior motive. For example‚ a Pharmaceutical company might try to say that
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FED. SCHOOL OF DENTAL TECH. AND THERAPY‚ ENUGU COURSE CODE: - STB 111 COURSE TITLE: - Morphology & Physiology of Living Things (INTRODUCTION) ------------------------------------------------- LECTURE ONE NOTES Introduction General Biology:- Biology as a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms‚ including their structure
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variation in allozymes in a "ring species‚" the plethodontid salamander (2001). Biologist ’s uncover Darwin ’s ’missing evidence ’ for divergence of species in a warbler ’s song (2008). Understanding evolution. University of California Museum of Paleontology‚ Retrieved from <http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/devitt_02> (2012)
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History Reviewer Unit I History- is the study of human past. - Study of origins‚ beginnings‚ changes in the humans and the environment in which they lived Lesson 1 The Origin of the Earth 18th century- 1700-1799 James Hutton- geologist who asserted that the Earth is in existence for quite a long period of time. Geologists- study the Earth‚ the Earth’s crust‚ rocks‚ as well as plant and animal remains. Geologic time scale- formulation of various events that transpired million
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Chapter 22 The Origin and History of Life on Earth * The universe began with a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago (bya). * Our solar system began about 4.6 bya after one or more local supernova explosions. * The Earth is estimated to be 4.55 billion years old. * The period between 4.0 and 3.5 billion years ago marked the emergence of life on our planet. * Section 22.1: Origin of Life on Earth: * Four Overlapping Stages of the Origin
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Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In an older and closely related meaning‚ "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself‚ of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist. Since classical antiquity‚ science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern period the words "science"
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species (different fruit fly for each fruit tree). Specialise on slightly different resources to avoid direct competition | * Describe‚ using specific examples‚ how the theory of evolution is supported by the following areas of study: - Paleontology‚ including fossils that
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