Tiêu đề NMAT BIOLOGY LESSON 2.pdf ✅

1 BIOLOGY General Concepts Biology: From Greek bios, “life”-the study of life Unifying Principles of Life:  Biological organization and order Emergent properties: properties at each larger level that aren’t found in the previous level  Reproduction  Homeostasis: Regulatory mechanisms maintain an organism’s internal environment  Growth and Development: according to heritable information  Energy processing: The transformation of one type of energy into another  Response to environment  Evolution adaptation: All organisms living today are modified descendants of common ancestor Classifying Organisms Mnemonic: Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti Scientific Names:  Always italicized  The first letter of the genus name is CAPITALIZED, everything else is in lowercase  Example: Homo sapiens