Lecture 1 Outline: Introduction

• discussion of syllabus (www.esu.edu/~jjewett/envbiosyl.htm)

• Why the environmental field is so hot?
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• Environmental scientists (who want a job) need to know
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• Get to know your local area well:  watersheds, conservation areas, problems
• What is life?  (See list pg. 4 in text).
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• Organization of life: cells as the basic unit
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• Basic cell types: what are the differences?
• Focus on plasma membranes
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• Transport: resources move across membranes
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• Active
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• Endocytosis __________________________
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• Focus on plant cell walls
1. Composition _____________________________
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2. Recycling __________________________________

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• Relative accumulation of plant litter in selected ecosystems (Table B1.1)
• Organelles & their main functions
• nucleus
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• endoplasmic reticulum
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• ribosomes
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• mitochondria
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• plastids
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• golgi complex
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• lysosomes
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• vacuoles
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• microfilaments & microtubules
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• cillia & flagella
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• microbodies
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• Contest of animal versus plant cells (Figure 1.1)