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Detailed lecture notes of Biology including topics like: cells, evolution, and organisms

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Biology 184

,genotype
:




Phenotype :




importance in evolution
:




importance in natural selection :




Phenotype plasticity recognition :




ploidy :

,BIOL 184
cellular life : HAPLOID single:
set of chromosomes

a genome is *
RIPLOID
:
two complete sets of homologous chromosomes ,
an
organisms
FORMULA pilody #of sets)
:
entire library PLOIDY total number
I
level chromosome in a
genome of
an
organism
of
HUMAN
:
2n =
44
Instructions ,



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nucleic acid
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chrom at in TOMATO : In =
24


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FISH : 4n : 100
=
y
>2 =

polyploid
nucleotides



are like

letters , strung MITOSIS : in multicellular organisms ,
used for growth
together to repair of somatic tissues .

form codons

↳ 3 letter


words) genes
TO SUMMARIZE
are Scentences

and
~
cell division is the
I
process that permits organisms
chromosomes
to reproduce a
I grow !
are books ! ~ mitosis results daughter cells with
in I
Identical genomes including ploidy level

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decent with modification :

provides a
unified explanation for
selection explains
patterns
the
of
similarity natural

match between and environment
organisms
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTANCE

VARIATION

INHERITANCE
IN CHARACTERS

IN CHARACTERS
3 NATURAL SELECTION




EVOLUTION
genetichangsIn theaveragevaluinpopulation
:
the o these




·
natural selection

· mutation

·
gene flow
however,In manyspecies , individuals d cooperate

-
genetic
·
drift
notice the selfish nature of fitness (reproduction)
T -
why <
gene better than
y?

-
is




SUCCESS :
reproduction-fitness =
the number of
offspring produced ove r course
of lifetime (survival of the fittesty ...




relative ! not perfect , but good enough




MITOSIS :
mode of replication In some
eukaryotic unicellular organisms
↳ bacteria fission both re s u l t daughter cells
binary
in
uses ~




&32
mins)
+
X
(25
=
· exponential growth ! :
30




Sister
-
1
I
·




-
*

-
-



*
homologous chromatome corisponding
Sister chromotio genomically identical
=


!



· humans are diploid

(2n =
46)
I




Fi
I
· chromosomes a re duplicated during prophase



&
I


what comprises an individual ? one
genome in one body .




a
unicellularity : quick reproduction , less resource consumption


3) multicellularity :
back-up cells , complex processes , longer survival , genetic diversity

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