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What is the study of biology?

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Living things

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Who was biology first used by?

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Lamarack

- he was a French naturalist

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When was biology first used?

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1802

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What 2 disciplines studied living things before the mid 19th century?

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  1. Medicine

2. Natural history (everything outside medicine)

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Why didn’t they dissect human bodies before the 19th century? (2)

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  1. It was illegal

2. It was hard to do

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What did they dissect instead of humans?

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Animals

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What was one of the first model animals for dissection?

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Barbary ape

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What does the discipline of history attempt to understand?

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Human past

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What is the most broadest and most integrative discipline?

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History

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What are the 5 subdivisions of history?

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  1. History of geographic entities/political entities
  2. Political history
  3. Military history
  4. Economic history
  5. Biography
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History of geographic entities/political entities (2)

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  1. History of Vancouver Island

2. History of Canada

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Political history

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Traditional or global

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Military history

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Major events of the world

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Economic history

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Capitalism vs communism

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Who is Paracelsus?

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Early chemist

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Historiography

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The study of historical writing

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What 2 factors can the basis of intellectual history be understood on?

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  1. Internal factors

2. External factors

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Internal factors

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Trying to understand changes in the science on a basis of inner dynamics

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External factors

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Sharing ideas/effect progress of science

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What are the 2 disciplines that are both historical in nature?

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  1. Biology

2. History

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When was the battle of Issus?

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Why do we study history? (5)

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  1. Intellectual curiosity
  2. To expand ones 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
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to do what?

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What 2 things did George Santayana say?

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  1. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
  2. History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there
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Who were 4 people we have learned from?
1. Winston Churchill 2. Joseph Stalin 3. Charles Darwin 4. John Nash
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Winston Churchill
Famous for his speeches and for his refusal to give in, even when things are bad
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Joseph Stalin
Transformed the soviet union from a peasant society into an industrial and military super power - ruled by terror
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Charles Darwin
Famous for his work on the theory of evolution
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John Nash
Received a Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory on non-cooperative games
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Connecting with the past on a emotional or spiritual level?
- 2004 Olympics were help in Greece - The shotput event was held at the original location - However, athletes were properly clothed and women were allowed to watch - Spiritual level --> last supper
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Guilty pleasure
Most of the stories are not true but interesting to listen too
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What can biology inquiry be seen as?
Attempt to answer 4 general questions
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What were the 4 general biology questions?
1. What living things are there in the world and how do they interact? 2. Where do organisms come from? 3. How do organisms work? 4. Why do offspring resemble their parents? Why are offspring different from their parents?
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What do scientists try and do?
Arrange life in a set order | - rational form
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What did people not believe long ago?
That things like bacteria existed because you could not see them
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What do we know through fossils?
That some organisms went extinct before humans arrived while some stayed
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Where do organisms come from?
Spontaneous generation | - sterile broth left for extended period of time started to develop micro-organisms
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How do organisms work? (2)
1. Circulation of the blood | 2. Electron transport chain
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Why do offspring resemble their parents?
Heredity
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BC
Before Christ | - 100 BC
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AD
Anno Domini | - AD 2016
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BCE
Before the Common Era | - 100 BCE
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CE
Common Era | - CE 2016
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Who did Aristotle live after?
Thales
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When Aristotle was young, who were old men? (2)
1. Democritus | 2. Hippocrates
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Who is Aristotle a younger contemporary of?
Plato

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