discipline of bio Flashcards
1
Q
biology
A
the study of living things
2
Q
who coined the term biology
A
Lamarck in 1802
3
Q
what 2 disciplines studied living things before the mid 19th century
A
medicine and natural history
4
Q
what is the broadest and most integrative discipline
A
history- attempts to understand the human past
5
Q
subdivisions of history
A
political, military, economic, biography, social, art
6
Q
what 2 factors can intellectual history be understood on
A
both physical objects to study and written records
- Internal factors: how ideas change looking largely at dynamics of ideas and implications of these ideas
- external factors: environment in which idea fluorishes, factors beyond discipline itself
7
Q
why study history
A
- intellectual curioisity
- to expand ones imagination
- to use the past as a guide to our actions in the future
- to connect with the past on an emotional or spirtual level
- guilty pleasure
8
Q
4 reccuring questions
A
- 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 and why are they different
9
Q
why is it difficult to identify and catalog living things
A
- invisibility
- interpretation: fossils
- definition: how do you define life
- numbers: finding every number of a species
- evidence: unicorns were accepted
10
Q
BC/AD system
A
BC = before christ AD = Anno domini (year of our Lord)
11
Q
BCE/CE system
A
BCE = before common erra (same as BC) CE = common era (same as AD)
