Lesson 7 - 10 Flashcards
School of thought espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic.
Stoicism
T or F: Biodiversity has been increasing due to human actions.
False
The number of different species in a particular ecosystem or on Earth.
species diversity
The differences among individuals or populations; variation within a species.
genetic diversity
The variety of life and its processes; including the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.
biodiversity
It is the process of protecting species in its natural habitat, either by establishment and management of protected areas where the species abound.
In Situ Conservation
The many types of functional units formed by living communities interacting with their environments.
ecosystem diversity
Date: Apple Macintosh computer
1984
Date: 1st Microprocessor chip
1971
Date: Dewey Decimal System
1876
Date: Integrated Circuit
1958
Date: 1st Magnetic Recordings
1899
Information became accessible through management of information by the use of computer networks
information age
The application of information technology to store, organize, and analyze vast amount of biological data.
Bioinformatics
Led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos.
Democritus and Leucippus
A person who considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.
Materialism
Whereas “truth” is the aim of the theoretical sciences, the “_______” is the end goal of the practical ones.
Good
World’s largest fish
Rhincodon typus
World’s largest shell
Tridacna gigas
Most expensive shell
Connus gloriamaris
World’s largest eagle
Pithecophaga jefferyi
World’s tiniest shell
Pisidum
a huge computer system that can fill an entire room
Mainframes
A system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities and worth
Humanism
An American entrepreneur who co-founded an Apple computers
Steve Jobs
a species present in such small numbers that is at risk of extinction
Endangered
An organism exclusively native to a place or biota
Endemic
The NAME of the place where the creature lives
Habitat
The vast variety of life forms in the entire earth
Biodiversity
A self-contained community of organisms which interacts along with the physical environment
Ecosystem
A PC that is not designed for portability
Desktop
T or F: Google is now the world’s most popular search engine
True
T or F: Paul Nipkow is the creator of the earliest robot in the early 1950’s.
False
A software tool used for an interactive genome analysis.
annotator
The first true portable computer was released in what year?
1981
An English Mathematics professor who designed the Analytical Engine which was used as the basic framework of the computers.
Charles Babbage
T or F: Personal service robot is a service robot used for a commercial task.
False
Declared the Greatest Happiness Principle by saying that an action is right as far as it maximizes the attainment of happiness for the greatest number of people.
John Stuart Mill
A software tool used for comparing sequences of gene proteins.
BLAST
Who disagreed that there is no reality over and above what the senses can perceive?
Aristotle
Who said the thought that things in the world are not real and are only copies?
Plato
Tool to identify coding regions and splice sites.
Gene Finder
A senior engineer at Motorola who made the world’s first mobile phone call.
Martin Cooper
T or F: Information age a period known also as the New Media Age.
True
The name of the invention created by a German student Paul Nipkow.
Electric telephone
T or F : English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1998.
True
T or F: Unimate is the name of the earliest robot created in the early 1950’s.
True
What type of species is most likely to lead to extinction of another species?
Invasive species
The belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life
Hedonism
T or F: Isaac Asimov formulated the laws of robotics back in the 1940s.
True
The first commercial mobile phone available to the public.
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
T or F: Charles Babbage is an English Mathematics professor, who designed the Analytical Engine which was used as the basic framework of the computers.
True
School of thought that espouses the freedom of man to carve his own destiny.
Humanism
Who said that technology can be perceived as a means to achieve man’s end?
Martin Heidegger
T or F: Professional service robot is a robot used for a commercial task.
True
