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CONTENT STRUCTURE I.
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THEMES PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY
MAINTENANCE AND REGULATION OF LIFE PROCESSES
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CONTINUITY OF LIFE
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MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
1. 2. 3. 4.
Topics Cell Structure and Organisation Movement of Substances Biological Molecules Animal Nutrition
5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Plant Nutrition Transport in Flowering Plants Transport in Humans Respiration Excretion Homeostasis Co-ordination and response Reproduction Cell Division Molecular Genetics Inheritance Organisms and their Environment
SUBJECT CONTENT ___________________________________ THEME I: PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY Overview A basic characteristic of life is the hierarchy of structural order within the organism. Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the first scientists to use a microscope to examine pond water, cork and other things, was the first to refer to the cavities he saw in cork as "cells", Latin for chambers. Subsequent scientists developed Hooke's discovery of the cell into the Cell Theory on which modern Biology is built upon. The Cell Theory states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, and that those cells have arisen from pre-existing cells.
In this section, we study two key principles of biology. The first principle is the correlation of structure to function.
This is illustrated by how each part of the cell is suited for its intended function. The second principle is that
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