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Biology 1000
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
01/28/2014

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xenophanes
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recognized fossils as animal remains
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Thales
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thought the earth was comprised of earth,water,fire,and air

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Pythagoras
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believed that everything could be expressed as numbers or mathematical formulate.
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Heraklitus
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understood that change was rational and expected the chaotic
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Socrates
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Developed socratic method of teaching and claimed to know nothing.
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Plato
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wrote about the death of socrates

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Hippocrates
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Remembered for his ruthless study of symptoms(symptomatology).First said that thoughts come from the brain not the heart.Though the body was comprised of four fluids( yellow bile,black bile,blood and phlegm.

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Four humors
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  • healthy individuals felt well because within their bodies are four fluids or humors.We feel well when the fluids are in balance.

  • when out of balance we feel ill

  • This notion set the stage for the modern notion of homeostasis


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Andreaus vesalius
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seeks to return the practice of human cadavers to study.Incurs the wrath of both the church and the humanist.Said that the best way to become a physician is to do your own dissection

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Francisco Redi
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Promoted biogenesis vis-a-vis abiogenesis.

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Wm.Harvey
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proves that  blood circulates
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
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Makes a superior lens and thereby develops the microscope opening a world before unknown.
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Robert Hooke
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after looking at the sliver of a cork observes small chambers,which he called cells.

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Joseph lister
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invented antiseptic surgery.
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Edward Jenner
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person who discovered process of vaccination and immunity

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William beaumont
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father of digestive physiology
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Louis pasteur and Robert Koch
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developed theory that germs cause disease.

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Crawford long
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first to remove tumor from patient while using ether.
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Ronald Ross
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discovered that mosquitoes cause disease.
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Reid
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discovered cause of yellow fever.
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Butler Law
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forbade the teaching of evolution in any school in TN in 1925.

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Scopes monkey trial
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creationism vs evolution
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Alexander Fleming
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develops the first antibiotic

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Rachel carson
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warned against the overuse of pesticides.
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Professor F.O. Wilson
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advocated for biodiversity
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Mechanism
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  • life is the orderly functioning of genes producing enzymes,which enable us to live

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Vitalism
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  • The theory or doctrine that life processes arise from or contain a nonmaterial vital principle and cannot be explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena.

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Holism
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  • Humans have to make their existence to well-Known landmarks to wit,birth and death.

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Characteristics of life

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  • Order:living organisms are complex

  • Regulation:

  • have the ability to grow and develop

  • ability to process energy(light:heat)

  • Irritability:Living organisms respond to their environment

  • whenever changing from one form of energy to another heat is always released.

  • Reproduction:The ability to perpetuate the species
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Alkaline 
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Base or an acid
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Interspecific
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two animals from different species
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intraspecific
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two animals from same species
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species
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animals
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specie
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hard money
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suspension
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particles too large to mix into a solution and they settle at the bottom
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Solution
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solute is dissolved in solvent
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coloid
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can be in a solid or gel state compose of a matrix with inclusion body
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Rough ER
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manufactures new membrane
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Smooth ER
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fats and lipids are made, it enables liver to perform functions
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Ribisomes 
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produce proteins
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Lysososmes
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are sacs of enzymes with  digestive compartments within a cell
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Substrate
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is a molecule upon which an enzyme acts
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Competitive inhibition
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is a form of enzyme inhibition where binding of the inhibitor to the active site on the enzyme prevents binding of the substrate and vice versa.
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Asexual reproduction
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  • offspring are identical to original cell or organism

  • involves inheritance of all genes from parent

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Sexual reproduction
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  • offspring are similar to parents,but show variations in traits

  • involves inheritance of unique sets of genes from two parents
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Haploid cell
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A cell or an organism having half of the number of chromosomes in somatic cells.

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Diploid Cell
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A cell or an organism consisting of two sets of chromosomes: usually, one set from the mother and another set from the father. In a diploid state the haploid number is doubled, thus, this condition is also known as 2n.

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Cleavage furrow
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A groove formed from the cell membrane in a dividing cell as the contractile ring tightens.

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Autosome
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any chromosome that is not the sex chromosomes, meaning (X or Y)

 

homologous:is a set of one maternal chromosome and one paternal chromosome that pair up with each other inside a cell during meiosis.

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Gregor Mendel
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discovered principles of genetics in experiments with the garden pea

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Phenotype
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the composite of an organism's observable characteristics or traits, such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, phenology, behavior, and products of behavior.
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Genotype

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 is the genetic makeup of a cell, an organism, or an individual usually with reference to a specific characteristic under consideration.
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polygenic
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Many genes influence one trait
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Phoresy
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an association between two organisms in which one (e.g., a mite) travels on the body of another, without being a parasite.

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Hardy-weinberg equilibrium
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This describes a situation where there is (apparently) no selection pressure for or against a given trait.

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Homology
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Similarity of origin
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Analogy
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Similarity of function
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Mutation
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are rare and random and has little effect on the gene pool
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The three main causes of evolutionary change
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  • Natural selection

  • Genetic drift

  • Gene Flaw

 

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