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AP Bio 1.2
Biological Systems are much more than the Sum of Their Parts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a system? | a more complex organization of a combination of components |
| What are emergent properties? | properties that emerge which aren't present in the level below |
| What is reductionism? | reducing complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study |
| How does systems biology work? | it models the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems |
| What is high-throughput technology? | mega-data-collection methods |
| What is bioinformatics? | extracting the useful information from the large amounts of data |
| What do interdisciplinary teams do? | they pretty much run the high-throughput technology and bioinformatics |
| What is feedback regulation? | the output of a process regulating that process |
| What is negative feedback? | the end product slows the process |
| What is positive feedback? | the end product speeds up the process |