1.1 in life's hierarchy of organization, new properties emerge at each level

.1 What is the highest level of the biological organization?

biosphere
What is the biosphere?

consists of all the environments on earth that support life, land, bodies of water, and the lower atmospher
What is a stage below the biospher?

ecosystem
What is an ecosystem?

consists of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving physical components of the environment, air, soil water
What is a stage below an ecosystem

community
What is a community

The entire array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem
What is a stage below community?

population
what is population?

all individual of species living in a specified area
What is life's hierarchy?
Biosphere
- ecosystem
- florida coast
- community
- all organisms on the florida coast
- population
- group of brown pelicans
- organism
- brown pelican
- organsystem
- nervous system
- organ
- brain
- tissue
- nervous tissue
- cell
- nerve cell
- organelle
- nucleus
molecule

dna
what is a stage below population

organism
What is an organism

an individual living thing
What is the emergent property?

the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

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1.1 in life's hierarchy of organization, new properties emerge at each level

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1.1 in life's hierarchy of organization, new properties emerge at each level

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