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5 Biology Themes

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The five themes of biology are organization/structure, energy flow, genetic flow, interactions, and evolution. Organization/structure is all about the different structures and their functions, energy flow relates to energy conversions, genetic flow talks about the transfer of genetic information, interactions can be large scale such as predators and mates, and finally, evolution is genetic changes in a population over time. A fairly big topic we covered this semester was viruses, and viruses relate to all five of the themes in biology. First, it correlates to organization/structure because all viruses are organized in similar ways and are made up of the same components. All viruses have some kind of genetic material and have a protein coat

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