Chapter 1: The Science of Biology

Critical to Know

1. How Natural Selection works
2. Evidence from evolution from fossils,
age of earth, comparative anatomy,
and molecular biology

 Must Know

Properties of Life
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Hypothesis
Theory
Charles Darwin
Thomas Malthus
Homologous
Analogous
Molecular Clock
Phylogenetic Trees
Cell Theory
DNA
Genome
The Domains of Life:
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

Instructors: Professor Herreid, herreid@acsu.buffalo.edu
and Professor Fourtner: fourtner@buffalo.edu
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