BZ 110 Karen Raines CSU Exam 1 Questions With Complete Answers.

Zoology is the study of - animals Histology - study of tissues entomology - study of insects Herpotology - study of reptiles and amphibians ichthyology - study of fish Mammology - study of mammals ornithology - study of birds Protozoology - study of protozoa Protozoa - one-celled organisms that are more complex than bacteria Ecology - Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment Carl von Linne - began systematically classifying living things Robert Hooke - Discovered cellsCharles Darwin - English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution. William Harvey - English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood Antone Van Leeuwenhoek - Invented the single-magnifying lens microscope. First to view microscopic cells: blood and bacteria binomial nomenclature - genus and species What will the world population be by 2050? - 9 billion How many species have been identified? - over 1 million cell - The basic unit of structure and function in living things Tissue - A group of similar cells that perform the same function. Organ - A collection of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body Organelle - A tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell Eukaryote - A cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles Prokaryote - A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus and membrane bound organelles Endoplasmic Reticulum - An organelle that forms a maze of passageways in which proteins and other materials are carried from one part of the cell to another.Golgi apparatus - A system of membranes that modifies and packages proteins for export by the cell Ribosomes - site of protein synthesis Cytoplasm - the material or protoplasm within a living cell, excluding the nucleus. Cristae - Infoldings of the inner membrane of a mitochondrion that houses the electon transport chain and the enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of ATP. Osmosis - Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane Diffusion - Movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. organic evolution - the principle set forth by Darwin that every plant or animal has evolved, or changed, over a long period of time from earlier, simpler forms of life to more complex forms the surface to volume ratio of a cell limits - the size a cell may reach