Biology 400 UVIC Mid-term Exam |Question and Answer| 100% Correct

Biology 400 UVIC Mid-term Exam |Question and Answer| 100% Correct there term biology was invented by who? *Ans* Lamarck 1802 Before the mid-19th century, two disciplines studied living things: *Ans* medicine and natural history subdivisions of history: *Ans* geographic, political, military, economic biography, art, literature, music, social, etc etc Intellectual history (including the history of science) can be understood on the basis of two kinds of factors: *Ans* internal andexernal approaches both are important for understandings Why study history? *Ans* 1. intellectual curiosity, 2. expand one's imagination, 3. to use the past as a guide to our actions in the future, 4. to connect with the past on an emotional or spiritual level, 5. guilty pleasure The "whig" interpretation of history *Ans* Hurbert Butterfield, 19th century, tended to regard history in regards to leading up to the present, but historians said maybe we should see the past in its own terms and to not compare everyone and everything else to 'us' the present, trying to understand the past in its own terms What are some of the recurring questions in biology? *Ans* -what living things are there in the world, and how do they interact? -where do organisms come from? -how do organisms work? -why do offspring resemble their parents? why are offspring different from their parents? Who came first: Aristotle or Thales? *Ans* Thales When Aristotle was young, how old was Democritus and Hippocrates? *Ans* Democritus and Hippocrates were old men when Aristotle was young _________ was a younger contemporary of Plato *Ans* Aristotle comment on the knowledge that hunter gatherer people had of biology *Ans* would need to know the habits of the animals (i.e. seasonal migration, behaviour etc), internal anatomy, how to kill them. would also need knowledge of plants and how to use them: food, medic, weapons, tools and construction material artificial selection in agriculture *Ans* deliberate, selective breeding for altered characteristics treats that were selected during plant domestication: *Ans* bigger seeds, plants tha