Coggle #3

Ecology

DNA

study of interactions between organisms and their enviroment

History of DNA

All life on Earth and the environment is the Biosphere.

Levels of Organization

Community - group of different populations

Ecosystem - all organisms plus the enviroment

Population - species that live in the same area

Biome - group of different ecosystems that share similar climate and organisms

Species - group of similar organisms, that can reproduce

Biotic Factors - living parts of an environment

Abiotic Factors - nonliving parts of an environment

herbivore - animal that eats plants

scavenger - an animal that feeds dead plant material

omnivore - a living that eats both plants and animals

producer - something that makes their own food

Characteristics of Living Things

are composed of cells

use energy

they can grow

they can reproduce

they maintain homeostasis

1928 - Griffith Experiment

1944 - Avery, Macleod, McCarthy

1917 - Spanish Flu

1950's - Chargaff, Franklin (Women) Watson and Crick

Mouse Pneumoccus

Smooth Pneumoccus (Virulent)

Rough Pneumoccus (Non Virulent)

Hershey and Chase

Nucleic Acid (p35) Protein Shell (have sulfur) 37

the DNA has the shape of a (double helix)

helicase - unzips the genes and breaks H- Bonds

Chargaff - A=T C=G

Franklin - shot a picture of DNA

Watson and Crick - figured out what DNA looks like

The link between all the chapters is how each part of the human body, ecosystem, and atmosphere all play a role to benefit each other and strive off of each other.