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Foundations of Biology: Exploring Life's Processes and Relationships

This course provides an overview of biology, including the study of plant and animal origins, characteristics, and life processes. Topics covered include genetics, sexual reproduction, and patterns of relatedness. Taught by Dr. Neil Shubin, a leading biologist from the University of Chicago.

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Foundations of Biology: Exploring Life's Processes and Relationships

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  1. BIO 111: Foundations of Biology Course Overview Wikimedia NIH Ifly magazine https://biologydictionary.net/biotic-factors-tropical-rainforest/#prettyPhoto

  2. Course Overview • A. What is Biology?

  3. Course Overview • A. What is Biology? • Webster's New World Dictionary defines biology as, "the science that deals with the origin, history, physical characteristics, life processes, habits, etc. of plants and animals: it includes botany and zoology." 

  4. Course Overview • A. What is Biology? • Webster's New World Dictionary defines biology as, "the science that deals with the origin, history, physical characteristics, life processes, habits, etc. of plants and animals: it includes botany and zoology."  • Webster's: "systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. The systematized knowledge of nature and the physical world".

  5. Genes that coordinate the development of different body regions in Drosophila melanogaster

  6. These genes are found in humans, too, where they are arranged in the same order and coordinate the development of body regions.

  7. Sexual Reproduction Creates Patterns of Relatedness by Common Descent Vertical order doesn’t matter; me and my brother related to our cousin to the same degree. me my brother my cousin you

  8. Sexual Reproduction Creates Patterns of Relatedness by Common Descent Genealogy of Human Populations

  9. Sexual Reproduction Creates Patterns of Relatedness by Common Descent Genealogy of Primates

  10. Course Overview • A. What is Biology? • B. What This Course is About

  11. Course Overview • A. What is Biology? • B. What This Course is About Dr. Neil Shubin Robert R. Bensley Professor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy University of Chicago http://naturedocumentaries.org/5720/fish-neil-shubin-pbs-2014/ (for some reason this link won’t connect directly… paste the address into the browser, and watch from the 4:00 minute mark until the ocean appears.)

  12. Course Overview • A. What is Biology? • B. What This Course is About • C. The Logistics

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