Lecture 01 Intro to Ecology

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Lecture 01Intro to Ecology
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• Ecology What is it?
• From
• Oikos (Greek)
• Logos
• Study of the study of interaction of organisms
  with one another and their environment
• Involves understanding of
• biotic factors (biology)
• Abiotic factors- things like?

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Basic properties of Living Things
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• Classifying the Diversity of Life Taxonomy
• Three domains
• Six Kingdoms
• Do kings play chess on fine grained sand?
• Species
• Common name vs. Scientific name
• Honey bee
• Apis metilifera or Apis metilifera

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• How we know what we know scientific method
• Observation
• Question
• Hypothesis
• Experiment
• accept/reject hypothesis

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• Theory What we know
• deductive reasoning
• inductive reasoning