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Gen Zoo Chap 1 Flashcards

1
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Scientific study of animal life

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Zoology

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Encompasses all scientific knowledge about animals, their embryonic development, evolution, characteristic and physiology, ecological distribution and classification

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Zoology

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3
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Early humans began thinking of animals and the
proof is in cave paintings

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Prehistoric time

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4
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Humans began to learn to domesticate animals as people become pastoralists and farmers instead of hunter-gatherers

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Neolithic revolution

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Created and first wrote about the science of biology and was able to classify 540 animal species but he classified creatures in a ladder or graded scale of perfection, with plants in the bottom and man at the top

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Aristotle

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6
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Most advanced in zoology and natural sciences. De Animalibus libre XXVI

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Albertus Magnus

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7
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Dissected animals and humans to perfect his
art, but also provided realistic illustrations of
animal anatomy

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Leonardo de Vinci

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8
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The father of Modern Taxonomy

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Carl von Linnaeus

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9
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Contributed greatly to the advances of
microscopy

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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10
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First to really discover the microbial world and
bacteria

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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11
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Coined the term “cells”

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Robert Hooke

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12
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Studied taxonomy but classified things by function rather than form known as
Lamarckism/ Inheritance of Acquired Traits/ Use-Disuse Hypothesis

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Jean-Baptist Lamarck

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The father of modern genetics. Discovered the law of inheritance

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Gregor Johann Mendel

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14
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Conducted pioneering work on the heredity

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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15
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Theory of evolution. On the origin of species by means of natural
selection

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Charles Darwin

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One of the founders of ethology . Conducted groundbreaking research on imprinting birds

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Konrad Lorenz

17
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transmission of traits

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Heredity

18
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production of differences among
traits

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Variation

19
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Precise and controlled movements arising from system

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Locomotion

20
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Properties of Life

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1.) Growth & Development
2.) Reproduction
3.) Secretion
4.) Locomotion
5.) Respiration
6.) Sensitivity
7.) Chemical components
8.) Organization
9.) Metabolism
10.) Genetic Material
11.) Environmental Interaction

21
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Response to stimuli, allows them to adapt and
survive

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Sensitivity

22
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All living things composed of biological
molecules (CHONs)

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Chemical components

23
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Living systems demonstrate a unique and complex hierarchical organization

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Organization

24
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Breakdown of molecules

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Catabolism

25
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Synthesis of molecules

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Anabolism

26
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Provides the fidelity of inheritance in the dorm of DNA

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Genetic Material

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