life science
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- LIVING THINGS - a collection of disciplines that is made up of theories and principles that tackle the structure and function of living things
- ZOOLOGY - study of animals
- BOTANY - study of plants
- MICROBIOLOGY - study of microorgansims
- living things are made up of CELLS
- CELL - life
- Living things have an orderly structure
- ORGANISM - carbon, hydrogen oxygen, nitrogen
- macromolecules - carbohydrates, proteins, lipids (fats), nucleic acids
- living things use energy
- living things are irritable
- stimulus - anything excites your senses
- living things grow and develop
- growth - increases in size and volume
- living things reproduce
- reproduce -perpetuation of species
- sexual - gametes/sex cell
- asexual - absence of sex cell
- living things are coded by genes
- genes - genetic material
- DNA - blueprint
- chromosomes - XY/XX (23 pairs)
- living things evolve and adapt to their environment
- animals, plants, fungi & protist cells are - eukaryote
- eukaryote - a cell or organism that process a clearly defined nucleus
- eukaryote is made up of - cytoplasm, nucleus, DNA, organelles, cell membrane, ribosomes, unicellular, multi cellular.
- bacterial & archea cells are - prokaryote
- prokaryote - lacks a distinct nucleus and other organelles
- prokaryote is composed of - cytoplasm, DNA, cell membrane, ribosomes, and unicellular.
- Special creation is also kown as creationist theory
- panspermia - life may have been carried to earth by beings of extraterrestrial origin
- special creation - a divine god is responsible for creating life.
- spontaneous origin - also known as biochemical theory
- spontaneous origin refers to - life evolve from inorganic and inanimate matter/ no life
- Aristotle - claimed that some classes of organisms come to life spontaneously
- Aristotle - claimed that the appearance of maggots in meat that was left in the open area
- Francisco Redi claimed that - maggots are produced from the eggs of flies
- Redi’s Experiment - proved that organisms do not just come to life spontaneousl.
- John Tuberville - he tested Redi’s experiment
- Needham‘s test - spontaneous generation can occur under the right conditions