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Levels of organization, Reductionism & Emergence, emergent - Coggle…
Levels of organization
Biosphere
consists of entire biotic and abiotic factors on Earth
Ecosystems
Communities
Populations
Organisms
Organs & systems
Tissues- cells- organelles
Molecules
Reductionism & Emergence
Two concepts are compatible & complementary rather than being called as contrary.
Reductionism
Narrowing down entities into smaller constituents
constituents determine the system
parts make a system
the activity in this individual parts give rise to the property of the system
helps in prediction
reduced to other subjects
Ex- 10=1+1+...
Ex- cellular respiration would add up to high pCO2
Emergence
X lead to Y
Specific organization of material substance is the cause of “emergence” of novel properties. (NCBI)
Ex- 10=(1+1=2) +1.....
Possible due to interaction (ex. mexican wave)
Due to collective activity/ consequence
ex- butterfly/ peacock feathers arrangement
cannot explain complexity of system without both
(
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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emergent
Atoms
Molecules
cytoplasm
organelle/ organ
system_ organism