Level of Organization
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(New page: Scientific knowledge is organized hierarchically in '''levels of organization''', where each level describes nature on a certain scope or resolution, from microscopic to [[...) |
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* Organism | * Organism | ||
| - | In | + | In the first chapter of their book "The Superorganism", Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson provide an elegant description of life as a scale-free hierarchy of biological complexity: |
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| + | : "Life is a self-replicating hierarchy of levels. Biology is the study of the levels that compose the hierarchy. No phenomenon at any level can be wholly characterized without incorporating other phenomena that arise at all levels. Genes prescribe proteins, proteins self-assemble into cells, cells multiply and aggregate to form organs, organs arise as parts of organisms, and organisms gather sequentially into societies, populations and ecosystems. Natural selection that targets a trait at any of these levels ripples in effect across all the others." | ||
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| + | In anatomy and biology, the levels of organic life-forms and organisms are | ||
* Organism | * Organism | ||
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* Tissue | * Tissue | ||
* Cell | * Cell | ||
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In physics, the levels of organizations for matter in general are: | In physics, the levels of organizations for matter in general are: | ||
