BIOL5 Lecture

• Biology


  The study of living organisms
• Father of modern human anatomy

  • Andreas Vesalius
• Cell Theory


  • Proposed by Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Rudolf Virchow
• Scientific method


  Formulating a hypothesis - Step 2
• Ecology


  The branch of biology that deals with the study of the distribution of living things
• Photosynthesis


  The process by which plants produce oxygen and glucose using sunlight
• Cellular respiration waste products in animals

  Carbon dioxide and water
• Organelle responsible for cellular respiration

  • Mitochondrion
• Sexual reproduction


  Involves the fusion of male and female gametes
• Cell membrane function


  To regulate what enters and exits the cell
• Organelle responsible for photosynthesis in plant cells

  • Chloroplast
• Genetics


  The branch of biology that deals with the study of heredity
• Cellular respiration waste product in animals

  Carbon dioxide
• Geotropism


  The process by which plants respond to gravity
• First scientist to observe cells under a compound microscope

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
• Phototropism


  The type of sensitivity that involves a plant's response to light
• Branches of biology


  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
• Characteristics of living organisms (MRS. C GREN)

  • Movement
  • Respiration
  • Sensitivity
  • Cellular organization
  • Growth
  • Reproduction
  • Excretion
  • Nutrition
• Waste products produced by animals

  • Carbon dioxide
  • Water
  • Urea
• Types of asexual reproduction

  • Budding
  • Fragmentation
  • Spore formation
• Organelles found in eukaryotic cells

  • Nucleus
  • Mitochondrion
  • Chloroplast
• Features of a prokaryotic cell

  • No membrane-bound organelles
  • Circular DNA
  • Ribosomes
• Types of tropisms exhibited by plants

  • Geotropism
  • Phototropism
• Functions of the cell membrane

  • Regulate what enters and exits the cell
  • Provide structural support
  • Facilitate communication and transport