{"id":67,"date":"2019-01-10T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-biology\/chapter\/introduction-3\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:07:14","slug":"introduction-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/chapter\/introduction-3\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<figure id=\"fig-ch20_00_01\" class=\"splash\"><figcaption><\/figcaption>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3943\/2019\/01\/10225736\/Figure_20_00_01.jpg\" alt=\" Photo shows a bee collecting nectar from a flower.\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" \/> The life of a bee is very different from the life of a flower, but the two organisms are related. Both are members the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham)[\/caption]<\/figure>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm142425376\">This bee and <em>Echinacea<\/em> flower (<a class=\"autogenerated-content\" href=\"#fig-ch20_00_01\">[link]<\/a>) could not look more different, yet they are related, as are all living organisms on Earth. By following pathways of similarities and changes\u2014both visible and genetic\u2014scientists seek to map the evolutionary past of how life developed from single-celled organisms to the tremendous collection of creatures that have germinated, crawled, floated, swam, flown, and walked on this planet.<\/p>","rendered":"<figure id=\"fig-ch20_00_01\" class=\"splash\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3943\/2019\/01\/10225736\/Figure_20_00_01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo shows a bee collecting nectar from a flower.\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The life of a bee is very different from the life of a flower, but the two organisms are related. Both are members the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"fs-idm142425376\">This bee and <em>Echinacea<\/em> flower (<a class=\"autogenerated-content\" href=\"#fig-ch20_00_01\">[link]<\/a>) could not look more different, yet they are related, as are all living organisms on Earth. By following pathways of similarities and changes\u2014both visible and genetic\u2014scientists seek to map the evolutionary past of how life developed from single-celled organisms to the tremendous collection of creatures that have germinated, crawled, floated, swam, flown, and walked on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-67\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Biology. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax CNX. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8<\/li><li>Introduction to Ecology &amp; Evolutionary Biology, Derived from Biology by OpenStax. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Adrienne Correa. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/25adc78c-f54a-4ef4-a081-ebe711c480ed@3.19\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/25adc78c-f54a-4ef4-a081-ebe711c480ed@3.19<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/25adc78c-f54a-4ef4-a081-ebe711c480ed@3.19<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":141992,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Biology\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax CNX\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Derived from Biology by OpenStax\",\"author\":\"Adrienne Correa\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/25adc78c-f54a-4ef4-a081-ebe711c480ed@3.19\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/25adc78c-f54a-4ef4-a081-ebe711c480ed@3.19\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-67","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/67\/revisions\/324"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/65"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/67\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}