All About Life Part 2

Question 1

Three main branches of Biology

Answer 1

Zoology, Botany, Microbiology

Question 2

Study of animals

Answer 2

zoology

Question 3

study of plants

Answer 3

botany

Question 4

study of microorganisms

Answer 4

microbiology

Question 5

study of the origins of species

Answer 5

evolution

Question 6

study of fossils/evidence of the past

Answer 6

paleontology

Question 7

study of the ancestral history of organism

Answer 7

phylogeny

Question 8

interactions and relationships within an ecosystem

Answer 8

ecology

Question 9

distribution of living things

Answer 9

biogeography

Question 10

wildlife and forest management

Answer 10

foresty

Question 11

study of freshwater habitats

Answer 11

limnology

Question 12

study of marine water habitats

Answer 12

oceonography

Question 13

composition of living things

Answer 13

biochemistry

Question 14

study of cells

Answer 14

cytology

Question 15

study of tissues

Answer 15

histology

Question 16

study of organs

Answer 16

organology

Question 17

dissection of body parts

Answer 17

anatomy

Question 18

study of gross structure

Answer 18

morphology

Question 19

functions of body parts

Answer 19

physiology

Question 20

development of the embryo

Answer 20

embryology

Question 21

heredity

Answer 21

genetics

Question 22

developmental history of an individual

Answer 22

ontogeny

Question 23

diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases

Answer 23

medicine

Question 24

moral values, rights, and duties in medicine

Answer 24

bioethics

Question 25

diseases

Answer 25

pathology

Question 26

parasites

Answer 26

parasitology

Question 27

skin diseases

Answer 27

dermatology

Question 28

cancer

Answer 28

oncology

Question 29

disorders of urinary and male reproductive organs

Answer 29

urology

Question 30

disorders of female reproductive organ

Answer 30

gynecology

Question 31

treatment of diseases, deformities, and injuries through operations

Answer 31

surgery

Question 32

use of anesthetic substance

Answer 32

anesthesiology

Question 33

mental disorders

Answer 33

psychiatry

Question 34

diseases of children

Answer 34

pediatrics

Question 35

diseases of senior citizens

Answer 35

geriatrics

Question 36

classification and phylogeny

Answer 36

systematics

Question 37

classification

Answer 37

taxonomy

Question 38

naming/assigning of scientific name

Answer 38

nomenclature

Question 39

bacteria

Answer 39

bacteriology

Question 40

viruses

Answer 40

virology

Question 41

protozoans

Answer 41

protozoology

Question 42

algae

Answer 42

phycology

Question 43

fungi

Answer 43

mycology

Question 44

mosses

Answer 44

bryology

Question 45

worms

Answer 45

helminthology

Question 46

crustaceans

Answer 46

carcinology

Question 47

shells

Answer 47

concology

Question 48

mollusks

Answer 48

malacology

Question 49

insects

Answer 49

entomology

Question 50

fishes

Answer 50

icthyology

Question 51

reptiles and amphibians

Answer 51

herepetology

Question 52

birds

Answer 52

ornithology

Question 53

mammalogy

Answer 53

mammals

Question 54

built by assembling molecules

Answer 54

organisms

Question 55

molecules that give us energy

Answer 55

carbohydrates and lipids

Question 56

molecules that speed up chemical reactoins

Answer 56

proteins

Question 57

molecules in which hereditary information is stored

Answer 57

nucleic acids

Question 58

the universe is approximately what old

Answer 58

13 billion years old

Question 59

when gravity pulled the rotating and orbiting dust and gases, Earth started to form and take its primordial state

Answer 59

The Big Bang Theory

Question 60

when did the earliest piece of evidences of life were proven

Answer 60

3.5 billion years old

Question 61

means seed everywhere, life on earth came from contaminated materials from space

Answer 61

Panspermia / Cosmozoic Theory

Question 62

who put forward the panspermia theory

Answer 62

Richter

Question 63

who supported Richter’s panspermia theory

Answer 63

Arrhenius

Question 64

the biomicrobes may have come in the Earth with the help of an Asteroid from another star family

Answer 64

Lithopanspermia

Question 65

the biomicrobes may have come here with the help of an Asteroid within our solar system

Answer 65

Ballistic panspermia

Question 66

intentional spreading of seeds of life from other planets by advanced extraterrestrial civilization

Answer 66

Directed panspermia

Question 67

life came from supreme beings or deities

Answer 67

Divine Creation Theory / Creationism

Question 68

life come from non-living things

Answer 68

Spontaneous Generation Theory

Question 69

postulated SGT

Answer 69

Aristotle “On the Generation of Animals”

Question 70

Life came from non-living things through multiple evolutionary processes

Answer 70

Miller-Urey Experiment

Question 71

proposed a theory that suspects life on Earth is developed through the gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in a “primordial” soup

Answer 71

Aleksandr Oparin

Question 72

proposed a similar theory that believes organic molecules could be formed from non-living materials in the presence of an external energy source

Answer 72

J.B.S. Haldane

Question 73

natural phenomenon or process where life came from non-living things or matter

Answer 73

abiogenesis

Question 74

tested the Oparin-Haldane theory

Answer 74

Harold Urey and Stanley Miller

Question 75

inorganic components present in Miller-Urey Experiment

Answer 75

Gases, water vapor, methane, ammonia, molecular hydrogen

Question 76

suggest that life may have been created in the depths of the ocean

Answer 76

deep sea vents theory

Question 77

suggest that life may have evolved from ice

Answer 77

chilly start

Question 78

introduced by Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith that suggest first molecules come from clay

Answer 78

Community clay

Question 79

first proto-life was self replicating RNA molecules

Answer 79

RNA World