Exam 1 (Tutorial 1-6
● Common properties to all living organism
1. Grow and develop
2. Reproduce
3. Use energy
4. Maintain homeostasi
5. Are organized
6. Adapt and evolv
● Biological evolution: changes in the genetic structure of a populatio
● Natural selection: process by which a population becomes better suited to it’s
environment overtim
● Adaption: traits that help an organism survive
● Conditions for natural selectio
1. Overproduction
2. Variation within a populatio
3. Variation must be heritabl
● Early earth had little oxygen, atmosphere was highly reducing which made inorganic
compounds capable of gaining e-
● Relative dating indicates age if fossils depending on how deep it was found in roc
● Absolute dating/radiometric dating refers to isotopes of carbon found in fossils
● Wate
- Oxygen is partial neg
- Hydrogen is partial pos
- Hydrogens are attached by covalent bonds to oxyge
- With other water molecules, form hydrogen bond
● Dehydration synthesis is anabolic. Monomers are put together to get polyme
● Hydrolysis is catabolic. Water is used to break bonds
● Know monomers of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
● Archaebacteria
- Gram positive, cyanobacteri
- Chlamydias, spirochete
- Proteobacteria
- Don't have peptidoglyca
- Introns present
● Bacteri
- Methanogens
- Extreme halophiles
- Extreme thermophile
Prokaryotes
- No introns
- Have peptidoglycan
● Cocci: spherica
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