13 Questions
What is the primary focus of biology as a scientific study?
Understanding the diversity of life on Earth
Which concept explains the unity and diversity of life?
Evolution
What is the fundamental unit of life that processes hereditary information?
Cells
What enables organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
Energy processing
At what levels of organization do biologists study life?
Molecular and cellular levels
What is the age of life on Earth, according to the text?
3.7 billion years
Who made significant contributions to the development of biological knowledge and explored biological causation and the diversity of life?
Theophrastus
Who began the scientific study of plants?
Theophrastus
Who dramatically improved the microscope and discovered spermatozoa, bacteria, infusoria, and the diversity of microscopic life?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Who promoted the idea that the basic unit of organisms is the cell and that individual cells have all the characteristics of life?
Schwann
Who proposed a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for all his species?
Carl Linnaeus
Who treated species as artificial categories and living forms as malleable, even suggesting the possibility of common descent?
Comte de Buffon
Who presented a coherent theory of evolution?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Explore the unifying themes in biology such as cellular structure, hereditary information, evolution, and energy processing. This quiz covers the fundamental concepts that tie together the study of life as a coherent field.
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