Introduction to Ecology

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Introduction to Ecology

• Life
• Cells and cell structure
• Tissues and Organs
• Organisms
• Classification
• Populations
• Communities
• Ecosystems
• Following illustrations from Biology by Campbell
  and Reece 6th edition, a first year text book.

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Figure 2.1 The hierarchy of biological order
from atom to organism
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Figure 2.12 Covalent bonding in four molecules
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Figure 2.14 Electron transfer and ionic bonding
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Figure 3.1 Hydrogen bonds between water
molecules 
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Figure 3.6x2 Ice floats and frozen benzene sinks
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Figure 2.16 A hydrogen bond
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Figure 2.19 A molecular mimic
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Figure 4.8x1 Estrone and testosterone
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Figure 5.3 The structure and classification of
some monosaccharides
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Figure 5.15 The 20 amino acids of proteins
nonpolar
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Making a polypeptide chain and protein structure
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Figure 5.28 DNA RNA protein a diagrammatic
overview of information flow in a cell
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Figure 6.8 The structure and hydrolysis of ATP
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Table 7.2 The structure and function of the
cytoskeleton
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Figure 7.23 A comparison of the beating of
flagella and cilia
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Figure 7.4 A prokaryotic cell
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Figure 8.9 Some functions of membrane proteins
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Figure 8.16 Review passive and active transport
compared
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Figure 8.19 The three types of endocytosis in
animal cells
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The stages of mitotic cell division in an animal
cell G2 phase prophase prometaphase,
metaphase, anaphase and telophase
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Figure 12.9 Mitosis in a plant cell
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The stages of meiotic cell division Meiosis
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Figure 13.7 The stages of meiotic cell division
Meiosis II
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Figure 16.16 A summary of DNA replication
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Figure 14.7 Testing two hypotheses for
segregation in a dihybrid cross
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Figure 14.9 Incomplete dominance in snapdragon
color
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Figure 14.11 An example of epistasis
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Figure 14.13 The effect of environment of
phenotype
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Figure 22.11b Artificial selection diverse
vegetables derived from wild mustard
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Figure 22.13 Evolution of drug resistance in HIV
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Figure 22.12 Evolution of insecticide resistance
in insect populations