Biology ch1

the process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today

the scientific study of life

subdivided by internal membranes into various membrane- enclosed organelles; largest organelle is the nucleus and have other organelles in the cytoplasm

the DNA is not separated from the rest of the cell by enclosure in a membrane-bounded nucleus (its also smaller)

the entire library of genetic instructions that an organism inherits; There are about 75,000 kinds of proteins

• most common form; accumulation of an end product
• of a process slows that process
• Ex: ATP production of excess.

production ; Ex: blood clotting

the branch of biology that names and classifies species, formalizes this ordering of species into groups of inc. breadth

Plants, animals, fungi, single-celled eukaryotes, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea)

theory of natural selection

• reasoning from a asset of
• specific observations to reach a general conclusion

a type of logic