Intro to Biology

To-Do Date: Jan 20 at 11:59pm

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This semester we will answer the questions posed in this video and more, by studying topics important to human and global health. If we are going to examine the whole world of living organisms, then we have to have some way to organize all of that information in our heads.    Here are two different frameworks with which to think about living organisms

Frameworks for Biology 

Levels of Biological Organization= Scale: looking at life based on size , scale and organization. Are we looking at molecules that make up cells? Or cells that make up an organ? Or species that make up an ecosystem? 

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biological hierarchy

 

 

 

 

 

Taxonomy = Genetic Relationship: examine organisms based on how closely they are related to each other, and therefore on how similar (or different) they are in their structures and functions.classification 

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The next two assignments will include videos for you to watch and answer the embedded questions.