CAMPBELL’S THEMES
HIERARCHY:
Life is organized on many structural levels.
EMERGENT PROPERTIES:
Each level of biological organization has emergent properties.
CELLS:
Cells are an organism’s basic units of structure and function.
INHERITANCE:
The continuity of life is based on heritable information in DNA.
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION:
Structure and function are correlated at all levels of life.
FEELING FOR THE ORGANISM:
A feeling for the organism enriches the study of life.
OPEN SYSTEMS:
Organisms are open systems that interact continually with their environments.
TAXONOMY: (
King Philip Came Over For Good Soup)Diversity and unity are the dual faces of life on earth.
EVOLUTION:
The history of life is a chronicle of processes of transformation.
THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS:
Science is a process of inquiry involving hypothesis and deduction.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
Technology (know how) often precedes Science (know why), but both work in consort and are functions of society.
MULTIDISCIPLINES:
Biology is a multidiscipinary adventure.