Biology: Themes and Concepts

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What is the primary theme that explains the unity and diversity of life?

  • Cellular structure
  • Energy processing
  • Genetic coding
  • Evolution (correct)

Which of the following is responsible for processing hereditary information encoded in genes?

  • Protein synthesis
  • Cellular structure (correct)
  • Evolution
  • Energy processing

What unifies all organisms, as mentioned in the passage?

  • Internal regulation
  • Cellular structure
  • Energy processing
  • Genetic coding (correct)

What allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?

<p>Energy processing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which scientific method do biologists use to make observations and form conclusions?

<p>Inductive reasoning (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the broad scope natural science that studies life at multiple levels of organization?

<p>Biology (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with the dramatic improvement of the microscope and the discovery of spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?

<p>Anton van Leeuwenhoek (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who began the scientific study of plants and is known as the successor to Aristotle in the field of biology?

<p>Theophrastus (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which two biologists promoted the universal ideas that the basic unit of organisms is the cell and that individual cells have all the characteristics of life?

<p>Schleiden and Schwann (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world in 1735 and introduced scientific names for all his species?

<p>Carl Linnaeus (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with presenting a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin's influential works?

<p>Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which Islamic scholar wrote extensively on botany and made contributions to the field of biology?

<p>Al-Dīnawarī (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Whose writings on anatomy and physiology were well studied by Islamic scholars working in Greek philosopher traditions?

<p>Rhazes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who treated species as artificial categories and living forms as malleable, even suggesting the possibility of common descent?

<p>Georges-Louis Leclerc (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who originated serious evolutionary thinking with a coherent theory before Charles Darwin?

<p>Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who wrote on entomology and helped develop techniques of microscopic dissection and staining?

<p>Jan Swammerdam (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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