{"id":981,"date":"2018-05-03T18:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/chapter\/introduction-23\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:03:55","slug":"introduction-23","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/chapter\/introduction-23\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"fig-ch20_00_01\" class=\"splash\">\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\/3206\/2018\/05\/03184536\/Figure_20_00_01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo shows a bee collecting nectar from a flower.\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" \/> <strong>Figure 1. <\/strong>A bee's life is very different from a flower's, but the two organisms are related. Both are members of the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham)[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm142425376\">This bee and <em>Echinacea<\/em> flower (<a class=\"autogenerated-content\" href=\"#fig-ch20_00_01\">(Figure)<\/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, swum, flown, and walked on this planet.<\/p>","rendered":"<div id=\"fig-ch20_00_01\" class=\"splash\">\n<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\/3206\/2018\/05\/03184536\/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\"><strong>Figure 1. <\/strong>A bee&#8217;s life is very different from a flower&#8217;s, but the two organisms are related. Both are members of the domain Eukarya and have cells containing many similar organelles, genes, and proteins. (credit: modification of work by John Beetham)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idm142425376\">This bee and <em>Echinacea<\/em> flower (<a class=\"autogenerated-content\" href=\"#fig-ch20_00_01\">(Figure)<\/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, swum, 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-981\">\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 2e. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e\">https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e<\/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\/8d50a0af-948b-4204-a71d-4826cba765b8@8.19<\/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":311,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Biology 2e\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/8d50a0af-948b-4204-a71d-4826cba765b8@8.19\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-981","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":979,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/981\/revisions\/2552"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/979"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/981\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}