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cladistics
science of classifying based on recent common ancestor (genotype)
herd immunity
everyone has immunity so the virus dies out
binary fision
-cell replicates DNA
-cell elongates
-cell pinches off in middle
-cell separates into 2 identical daughter cells
who discovered antibiotics
alexander flemming
protists are
unicellular and eukaryotic
3 types of protist
animal-like, plant-like, and fungal-like
animal-like
heterotrophs, movement(cilia, pseudopods, flagella)
plant-like
autotrophs, have chloroplasts, cell walls with cellulose
fungal-like
decomposers, produce fruiting bodies (spores), absorb nutrients
central dogma of cell theory
DNa self-replicates, information flows from DNA->RNA->protein
cycle of scientific enterprise
theory->hypothesis->expirement->analyis-> review(if inconsistent) or theory(if consistent) for retesting
transcription vs. translation
trancription: coppying DNA sequenceinto mRNA transcript that carries a coded message for a protein from the nucleus to the ribosome
translation: decoding the mRNA transcript to produce a sequence of amino acids by the ribosome to make a protein