Positive Feedback - ️️in which an end product speeds up its own production
Theodosius Dobzhansky - ️️"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution"
Taxanomy - ️️the branch of biology that names and classifies species
Natural Selection - ️️the natural environme...
BSC 1010 Exam 1 - FAMU
Positive Feedback - ✔️✔️in which an end product speeds up its own production
Theodosius Dobzhansky - ✔️✔️"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution"
Taxanomy - ✔️✔️the branch of biology that names and classifies species
Natural Selection - ✔️✔️the natural environment selects for the propagation of certain
traits among naturally occurring variant traits in the population.
Systems Biology - ✔️✔️an approach that attempts to model the dynamic behavior of
whole biological systems based on a study of the interactions among the systems parts.
Cells - ✔️✔️1) every cell is enclosed by a membrane that regulates the passage of
materials between the cell and its surroundings
2) every cell uses DNA as its genetic information even though we can distinguish
between the two main forms of cells
3) porkaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells
Eukaryotic Cell - ✔️✔️subdivided by internal membranes into various membrane-
enclosed organelles.
Prokaryotic Cell - ✔️✔️DNA is not separated from the rest of the cell by enclosure in a
membrane-bounded nucleus.
1) lack other kinds of membrane-enclosed organelles that characterize eukaryotic cells.
Genes - ✔️✔️the units of inheritance that transmit information from parents to
offspring.
Gene Expression - ✔️✔️the process by which the information in a gene directs the
production of a cellular product
Genome - ✔️✔️a source house of genetic instructions that an organism inherits
Genomics - ✔️✔️whole sets of genes of a species as well as comparing genomes
between species
Bioinformatics - ✔️✔️the use of computational tools to store, organize, and analyze the
huge volume of data that result from high-throughput methods.
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