BIO 400 midterm Questions With Complete Solutions

before the mid nineteenth century, two disciplines studied living things correct answer: medicine and natural history Lamarck, 1802: French Naturalist, introduced the word biology natural history and medicine first interacted: - barbary ape-- model for human anatomy used by Galen (Roman physician, 2nd, century AD) - opium poppy-- medicinal plant (to be a doctor meant to be a botanist) subdivisions of history correct answer: geographic political military economic biograpgy history of history: historiography intellectual hisotry (including the history of science) can be understood on the basis of two kinds of factors correct answer: intellectual history: independent ideas/ internal - internal development of ideas external factors: political climate, etc, zeitgeist The disciplines of biology and history are both historical in nature. correct answer: change affects the future develop thru time can view nature in the same way we view history why study history??? correct answer: intellectual curiosity to expand ones imagination