16 Questions
What is the scientific study of life called?
Biology
Which unifying theme in biology explains the unity and diversity of life?
Evolution
What allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?
Energy Processing
At what levels of organization can biologists study life?
Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal
Which domain of life includes organisms such as archaea and bacteria?
Prokaryotic
What method do biologists use to make observations, generate hypotheses, and form conclusions?
Scientific Method
Who is credited with the dramatic improvement of the microscope, leading to the discovery of spermatozoa, bacteria, and infusoria?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Which biologist(s) promoted 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 presented a coherent theory of evolution before Charles Darwin?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Who wrote on botany in the medieval Islamic world?
Al-Dīnawarī
Who treated species as artificial categories and suggested the possibility of common descent?
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Who contributed extensively to the development of biological knowledge and explored biological causation and the diversity of life?
Aristotle
Which philosopher began the scientific study of plants in ancient Greece?
Theophrastus
Which scientist made new interest in entomology and helped develop techniques of microscopic dissection and staining?
Jan Swammerdam
Who published a basic taxonomy for the natural world and introduced scientific names for all his species in the 1750s?
Carl Linnaeus
Who opposed the idea that all cells come from the division of other cells, continuing to support spontaneous generation?
Robert Remak and Rudolf Virchow
Test your knowledge of the scientific study of life, including themes such as cell structure, hereditary information, evolution, and energy processing in organisms.
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