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Lecture ILecture I

Slide 2 – Test question example

Mary had some peas, mash potatoes and

a little _____

a. Roast beef

b. Pot roast

c. Pork

d. Chicken

e. Spinach (she’s a vegetarian)

f. Mu Shu pork

g. Squirrel (she’s country)

h. Lamb

Slide 3 - Biology

Slide 4 – Ice cap on Mars

Slide 5 – Trophic levels

Slide 6 – Producers or photoautotrophs

Slide 7 – Plants at night – Cellular respiration

Slide 8 – Consumers or heterotrophs

Slide 9 – Trophic levels

Slide 10 – Decomposition cycle

Slide 11 - Omnivores

Slide 12 – Paleontology (form and function)

Slide 13 - Statistics

Slide 14 - Chemistry

Slide 15 – Biological weapons

Slide 16 – Organization of life

Slide 17 - Homeostasis

Slide 18 – Aristotle (Ptolemaic astronomy)

Slide 19 - Democritus

Slide 20 – Spontaneous generation

Slide 21 – Scientific method

Slide 22 - Andreas Vesalius

Slide 23 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Slide 24 - Louis Pasteur

Slide 25 - Mendel

Slide 26 – Darwin and evolution

Slide 27 – Sir Alexander Fleming

Slide 28 – Hershey and Chase

Slide 29 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick

Slide 30 - Ian Wilmut

Slide 31 – Applied vs. pure experimentation

Applied experimentation is where the efforts and results are used for a specific purpose in order to benefit man etc. Pure experimentation is where scientists perform test / experiments just for the sake of testing / experimenting

Slide 32 – Formation of the solar system

Slide 33 – Primitive atmosphere

Slide 34 – amino acids

Slide 35 – Peptide, polypeptide and various protein structures

Slide 36 – DNA and RNA

Slide 37 – Stanley Miller

Slide 38 – inorganic catalysts

Slide 39 – Organic catalysts (enzymes)

Slide 40 – Proteinoids and microsphere (Sidney Fox)

Slide 41 - Protocell

Slide 39 - Chemoautotrophs

Slide 40 – Prokaryotic cells

Slide 41 – Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae

Slide 42 – Endosymbiotic theory

Slide 43 – Prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic cell

Slide 44 – Composition of an ecosystem

An individual organism belongs to a population

All members of a species belong to a community

All communities taken together compose the biosphere

The populations within the community interact among themselves, other communities and with the physical environment forming an ecosystem

Slide 45 – Cycle of life

Slide 46 - Taxonomy

Slide 52 – Classifications

Slide 53 – Rodent classification (example)

Kingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataSubphylum VertebrataClass MammaliaOrder RodentiaFamily MuridaeGenus RattusSpecies norvegicus

Slide 54 - Binomial Classifications