INTRO TO BIOLOGY
• WHAT IS BIOLOGY?
• THE STUDY OF LIFE
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BIO LIFE
LOGOS STUDY
• What Can you do with Biology?
• Scientists, doctors, veterinarians, Fish and Game, agriculture
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE
• WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE?
• LIST SOME LIVING THINGS AND SEE WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON
• DISCUSS AS A TABLE AND COME UP WITH 5 IDEAS
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MADE OF ONE OR MORE CELLS
DISPLAYS ORGANIZATION
GROWS AND DEVELOPS
REPRODUCES
RESPONDS TO STIMULI
REQUIRES ENERGY
MAINTAINS HOMEOSTASIS
ADAPTATIONS EVOLVE
ORGANIZATION
• HOW IS THE SCHOOL ORGANIZED?
• STUDENTS, TEACHERS, PRINCIPLES, CLASSROOMS
• CELLS  TISSUES  ORGANS SYSTEM FUNCTIONS SUPPORT A LIVING ORGANISM
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
• Growth addition of mass to organism ( usually formation of new
cells/structures)
• Development process of natural change that takes place during an
organisms life
REPRODUCES
• PROCESS OF PRODUCING OFFSPRING ( SEXUAL OR ASEXUAL)
• SPECIES- A GROUP OF ORGANISMS THAT CAN BREED WIT ONE ANOTHER AND PRODUCE FERTILE
OFFSPRING  EX MULES ( CROSS BETWEEN HORSE AND DONKEY, NOT USUALLY FERTILE!)
RESPONDS TO STIMULI
• Stimuli anything a part of the environment and causes a reaction
• the reaction is to a stimulus is a response
REQUIRES ENERGY
• THEY NEED ENERGY!! (FOOD OR LIGHT USUALLY)
MAINTAINS HOMEOSTASIS
• Regulation of internal conditions to maintain life
• i.e. Altitude Sickness ( body has to adjust to the new levels of O2 )
ADAPTATIONS
• WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF ADAPTATIONS?
• ANY INHERITED CHARACTERISTIC THAT RESULTS FROM CHANGE TO A SPECIES OVER TIME
• HTTPS://WYOMING.PBSLEARNINGMEDIA.ORG/RESOURCE/TDC02.SCI.LIFE.EVO.CAMOUFLAGE/EVOLUTION-OFCAMOUFLAGE/
WHAT DO YOU THINK ECOLOGY IS?
• RELATIONS OF ORGANISMS TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THEIR PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS.
ECOLOGY INTRO VIDEO
• KHAN ACADEMY
• HTTPS://WWW.KHANACADEMY.ORG/SCIENCE/HIGH-SCHOOL-BIOLOGY/HS-ECOLOGY/HSINTRODUCTION-TO-ECOLOGY/V/ECOLOGY-INTRODUCTION
PLANTS
• CHECK ON YOUR PLANTS! RECORD ANY NEW DATA
• CLOSED BIOME SYSTEM
• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OUR PLANTS RIGHT NOW AND A CLOSED SYSTEM
• HALF OF CLASS SARAN WRAP OVER THE TOP OF YOUR PLANTS ( SIMILAR TO GREEN HOUSE/ CLOSED BOTTLE)
BIOMES
• CLOSED VS OPEN BIOMES
• 8 MAJOR BIOMES
• TUNDRA.
• TAIGA (ALSO CALLED BOREAL FOREST)
• TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST.
• SCRUB FOREST (CALLED CHAPARRAL IN CALIFORNIA)
• GRASSLAND.
• DESERT.
• TROPICAL RAIN FOREST.
• TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST
ECOSYSTEM
• WHAT’S YOUR DEFINITION OF AN ECOSYSTEM?
• AN ECOSYSTEM IS A LARGE COMMUNITY OF LIVING ORGANISMS (PLANTS, ANIMALS AND MICROBES) IN A
PARTICULAR AREA
BIOME VS. ECOSYSTEM
• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BIO AND AN ECOSYSTEM?
• A BIOME IS DIFFERENT FROM AN ECOSYSTEM. AN ECOSYSTEM IS THE INTERACTION OF LIVING AND
NONLIVING THINGS IN AN ENVIRONMENT. ABIOME IS A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREA NOTABLE FOR THE
SPECIES LIVING THERE