Advanced Biology

Properties of Life
 Biology
 The scientific study of life

1.1
 Properties of Life

1.2
 Organization of Life

1.4
 Organization of Life

1.4
 Three Major Themes
 Cell Theory
 Energy Transfer
 Evolution

1.3
 Cell Theory
 Cells are highly ordered

1.3
 Cell Theory
 Cell structures have specific functions

1.3
 Cell Theory
 Cells carry out chemical reactions
(metabolize)

1.3
 Cell Theory
 Cells use metabolism to:
 Reproduce (with heredity)
 Regulate
 Communicate
 Move
 Grow

1.3
 Where do cells get the energy?

1.3
 Energy Transfer
 Cells use energy
 Cells gather energy through
transformation

Light  Food

1.3
Evolution
 Where did life
come from?
Evolution
 Three hypotheses on the origin of life
 Creation
 Extraterrestrial
 Chemical Evolution
Creation
 The idea that life originated as the
creation of a supreme being
 Extraterrestrial
 Based on:
 Presence of basic molecules of life found in
 Meteorites
 Comets
 Mars
 Chemical Evolution
 Cells arose from
the assembly of
simple organic
molecules present
in the Earth’s
primitive oceans
about 3.7 billion
years ago

1.3
 Heredity in reproduction
 All living things contain coded
information in the form of:
 DNA
 This allows for both continuity and
change in living things

1.3
 Scientific Method
 Discovery Science
 Based on observation
 Usually qualitative
 Experimental Science
 Based on experimentation (testing a hypothesis)
 Usually quantitative

1.5