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Questions and Answers
What makes defining viruses as living or non-living difficult?
What makes defining viruses as living or non-living difficult?
- They do not undergo metabolism
- They lack genetic material
- They replicate only in host cells (correct)
- They do not respond to stimuli
When did life originate?
When did life originate?
- Around 10,000 years ago
- Less than a billion years ago
- Around 100 million years ago
- At least 3.5 billion years ago (correct)
Who proposed the theory that living things are composed of four eternal elements?
Who proposed the theory that living things are composed of four eternal elements?
- Charles Darwin
- Carl Linnaeus
- Aristotle
- Empedocles (correct)
Who developed the system of binomial nomenclature for classifying living things?
Who developed the system of binomial nomenclature for classifying living things?