15 Questions
What is the unifying theme that explains the unity and diversity of life?
Evolution
Which level of organization in biology involves studying the anatomy and physiology of plants and animals?
Organismal biology
What is the main role of biologists in using the scientific method?
Generating hypotheses
Which type of organisms emerged more than 3.7 billion years ago?
Prokaryotic organisms
What is the fundamental unit of life that processes hereditary information encoded in genes?
Cells
Which aspect of life allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
Energy processing
Who is credited with beginning the scientific study of plants?
Theophrastus
Which Islamic scholar wrote on botany in the medieval Islamic world?
Rhazes
Who dramatically improved the microscope, leading to the discovery of spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for species in the 18th century?
Carl Linnaeus
Which pair of scientists began promoting the idea that the basic unit of organisms is the cell and that individual cells have all the characteristics of life?
Schleiden and Schwann
Who treated species as artificial categories and suggested the possibility of common descent in the 18th century?
Georges-Louis Leclerc
Which naturalist combined the biogeographical approach of Humboldt with uniformitarian geology?
Charles Darwin
Who wrote on anatomy and physiology in the medieval Islamic world?
Rhazes
Explore the fundamental concepts of biology through this quiz. Test your knowledge of cells, genes, evolution, and energy processing, all of which are key themes in the study of life.
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