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What is a unifying theme in the study of biology?
Which of the following is a critical aspect of life on Earth?
What is the primary role of biologists in studying life?
What is a key characteristic of life on Earth according to the text?
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What allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
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What is one of the major ways in which biologists study life?
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Who is considered the earliest contributor to the development of biological knowledge?
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Which scientist dramatically improved the microscope and discovered spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?
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Who proposed the now universal ideas that the basic unit of organisms is the cell and that individual cells have all the characteristics of life?
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Which naturalist presented a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin?
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Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for all his species in the 18th century?
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Which Islamic scholar wrote on anatomy and physiology during the medieval period?
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Who is known for their contributions to the development of biological knowledge through exploration of biological causation and the diversity of life?
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Which scientist's investigations led to new interest in entomology and helped develop techniques of microscopic dissection and staining?
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Who treated species as artificial categories and living forms as malleable, even suggesting the possibility of common descent?
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In what century did biology begin to quickly develop with the dramatic improvement of the microscope?
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