2. The Cell

3. Hertitable Information

4. Structure/Function

5. Interaction with the Environment

6. Regulation

7. Unity and Diversity

8. Evolution

9. Scientific inquiry

10. Science, Technology, and Society

Hope that helped.

Life’s major themes:

1. Each level of biological organization has emergent properties.

2. Cells are the basic unit for both structure and function.

3. DNA is the genetic material and is the heritable information.

4. Structure and Function are related at all levels of organization.

5. Open systems: A way of sensing and responding to specific changes in the environment.

6. A way of capturing and using energy and materials (regulation of biochemical reactions)

7. Unity and Diversity.

8. Evolution is the central theme of biology.

9. Science is a process of inquiry (the scientific method).

10. Science and technology are functions of society

Here’s another way to put it:

1. The Cell Theory

a. All cells come from other cells.

b. Cells or their products are the basic unit of structure and function of all life.

2. The Gene Theory

a. Genetic continuity from generation to generation.

b. The DNA evolves.

3. The Theory of Evolution By Natural Selection (EBNS)

a. Natural selection is the mechanism of the process

b. The progression of complexity from atoms to the biosphere.

c. Classification of life by the theory of evolution (ebns).

4. The Germ Theory of Disease

a. Pathogens and the immune system.

b. History of modern medicine.

c. Nonpathogenic diseases.

5. The Unity of All Life

a. Biochemical similarities of all life.

b. Homologous structures.

c. The interdependence of all life within a system.

6. The Relation of Structure to Function

a. Specific biological structures have specific functions.

b. From the sub cellular to the ecosystem level.

c. Convergent and divergent evolution.

7. Change – The Earth Is A Dynamic Planet As Are The Systems Upon It.

a. Species change with changing systems.

b. Species change ecosystems.

c. Organisms react to change (stimuli).

8. Ecology

a. “Diversity tends towards stability.”

b. Connectedness: everything is connected to everything else.

1. Therefore, you cannot do JUST one thing.

c. There is no free lunch.

d. Energy and matter flow patterns through ecosystems.

9. Science and Technology as a Function of Society

10. Scientific Method as a process of research