Introduction

Question 1

What is biology?

Answer 1

The study of living things

Question 2

Where does the word biology come from?

Answer 2

The knowledge of life. Comes from Lamark in 1902.

Question 3

Before the mid-19th century, what two disciplines studied living thing?

Answer 3

Medicine and Natural History

Question 4

What is the broadest and most integrative intellectual discipline?

Answer 4

History. There is nothing you know, nothing you believe, nothing you have experiences that is irrelevant to history.

Question 5

What are the 5 subdivisions of history?

Answer 5

1. History of a geographical region
2. Political history
3. Military history
4. Economical history
5. Biography, nothing but personality

Question 6

Intellectual history (including the history of science) can be understood on the basis of what two kinds of factors?

Answer 6

-External and internal considerations

Question 7

Why study history?

Answer 7

1. Intellectual curiosity
2. To 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

Question 8

Expanding one’s imagination..

Answer 8

We should attempt to understand the past in light of knowledge and values of the period under study, not in the light of our current knowledge and values

Question 9

What are the 4 general questions of biological inquiry throughout history?

Answer 9

1. What living things are there in the world and how do they interact?
2. Where do organisms (both individuals and species) come from?
3. How do organisms work?
4. Why do offspring resemble their parents? Why are offspring different from their parents?

Question 10

Expressing numbers in this course:

Answer 10

B.C. = Before Christ
A.D. = Anno Domini (year of our lord
B.C.E.= Before Common Era.
C.E.= Common Era