Week 1 YY

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What is Life?

In biology, life is considered a characteristic of something that exhibits all or most of the following traits: homeostasis, organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli and reproduction.

 

What is Information?

Information is that which informs. In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind. A interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data is bioinformatics.

 

What is Universe?

Generally the universe is all of time and space and its contents.  It includes planets, moons, minor planets, stars, galaxies, the contents of intergalactic space, and all matter and energy. But I think universe is where living organism such as plants, animals and human being lives.  

 

What is Evolution?

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. 

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