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What is the primary theme that explains the unity and diversity of life?
What is the primary theme that explains the unity and diversity of life?
- Evolution (correct)
- Energy processing
- Cellular organization
- Hereditary information
Which of the following is not a subdiscipline within biology?
Which of the following is not a subdiscipline within biology?
- Botany
- Ecology
- Herpetology (correct)
- Genetics
What allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
What allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
- Hereditary information
- Cellular organization
- Regulation of internal environment
- Energy processing (correct)
What is the fundamental unit that all organisms are made up of?
What is the fundamental unit that all organisms are made up of?
Which type of organisms emerged more than 3.7 billion years ago?
Which type of organisms emerged more than 3.7 billion years ago?
What do biologists use to make observations, pose questions, perform experiments, and form conclusions?
What do biologists use to make observations, pose questions, perform experiments, and form conclusions?
Who made significant contributions to the development of biological knowledge?
Who made significant contributions to the development of biological knowledge?
Who dramatically improved the microscope and discovered spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?
Who dramatically improved the microscope and discovered spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?
Who led new interest in entomology and helped to develop techniques of microscopic dissection and staining?
Who led new interest in entomology and helped to develop techniques of microscopic dissection and staining?
Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for all his species?
Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for all his species?
Who treated species as artificial categories and suggested the possibility of common descent?
Who treated species as artificial categories and suggested the possibility of common descent?
Who presented a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin?
Who presented a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin?
Who combined the biogeographical approach of Humboldt with the uniformitarian geology of Lyell?
Who combined the biogeographical approach of Humboldt with the uniformitarian geology of Lyell?
Who wrote on botany in the medieval Islamic world?
Who wrote on botany in the medieval Islamic world?
