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Ecosphere What is the white mass at the top? What is the big green-brown body in the upper half? What season is it in Connecticut? What are the white swirls? Where is the equator?

Biome: deciduous forest biome What is one source for the water?

Ecosystems: forest, riverine, old field, disturbed %20Saint%20John%20River%20Hardwood%20Forest%20-%20Aerial%20- %20Communications%20NB%2072%20DPI%20RGB%20JPG.jpg

Forest ecosystem: a community of trees What are the different colors and shapes? What are we not seeing without a closer look?

Forest Community: What do producer, consumer, decomposer mean?

Population of trees--OK only if ONE species? Is that valid?

Organism: one tree Why is this one tree so different from those individuals in the previous picture?

Organ System: branch with stem, buds, petioles, leaves

Organ: one leaf blade petiole

Tissues: epidermis, palisade and spongy mesophyll, xylem, phloem epidermis window, lens palisade mesophyll photosynthesis xylem water and mineral intake phloem sugar and amino acid export spongy mesophyll evaporative cooling (photosynthesis) epidermis regulates water loss and gas exchange

Cell: a mesophyll protoplast (Cell wall was digested off by cellulase) cell membrane import/export chloroplast photosynthesis cytosol fermentation glycolysis vacuole toxic waste processing nucleus transcription replication

Biology is multidimensional Ecosphere Ecosystem Community Population Organism Organ System Organ Tissue Cell Organelle Molecule This array is an example of what dimension? Levels of Organization What fields of biology are at each extreme? Biophysics and Biochemistry In this course our focus will be upon… The Organism! Of course some organisms consist of just one cell! Some organelles are derived from an endosymbiotic organism!

Organelles: endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus, mitochondrion, oleosome endoplasmic reticulum internal transport nucleus transcription, replication mitochondrion respiration zymogen granule enzyme protein storage and secretion compartment DNA

Macromolecular: DNA ribose sugar (green white) phosphate (yellow red) nitrogenous bases (blue green white red)

Biology is multidimensional Ecosphere Ecosystem Community Population Organism Organ System Organ Tissue Cell Organelle Molecule This array is an example of what dimension? Levels of Organization What fields of biology are at each extreme? Biophysics and Biochemistry In this course our focus will be upon… The Organism! Of course some organisms consist of just one cell! Some organelles are derived from an endosymbiotic organism! Bio 130 Bio 120 Bio 220 Che