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Emergent properties

• Novel properties that appear at each level of


the biological hierarchy as a result of
interactions among components at the lower
levels
• “The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts.”
Structure and function are
correlated at all levels of biological
organization
To think about for next meeting:
• How big can a single cell grow?
• What factors may have led to the evolution of
multicellularity?

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