Zoology Mod1

Question 1

What is zoology?

Answer 1

Zoology is a branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Question 2

What does arachnology study?

Answer 2

Arachnology is the study of spiders, scorpions, and harvestmen.

Question 3

What is archaeozoology?

Answer 3

Archaeozoology is the study of faunal remains.

Question 4

What does cetology focus on?

Answer 4

Cetology deals with whales and dolphins.

Question 5

What is entomology?

Answer 5

Entomology is the study of insects.

Question 6

What does ethology study?

Answer 6

Ethology is the science of animal behavior.

Question 7

What is herpetology?

Answer 7

Herpetology is the study of reptiles and amphibians.

Question 8

What does ichthyology study?

Answer 8

Ichthyology is the study of fishes.

Question 9

What is malacology?

Answer 9

Malacology is the study of mollusks.

Question 10

What does mammalogy focus on?

Answer 10

Mammalogy is the study of mammals.

Question 11

What is myrmecology?

Answer 11

Myrmecology is the study of ants.

Question 12

What does ophiology study?

Answer 12

Ophiology deals with snakes.

Question 13

What is ornithology?

Answer 13

Ornithology is the study of birds.

Question 14

What does paleozoology focus on?

Answer 14

Paleozoology deals with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological contexts.

Question 15

What is primatology?

Answer 15

Primatology deals with primates.

Question 16

What does protozoology study?

Answer 16

Protozoology is the study of protozoa.

Question 17

What is zoogeography?

Answer 17

Zoogeography deals with the geographical distribution of animals.

Question 18

What does zoography study?

Answer 18

Zoography is descriptive zoology, describing animals and their habitat.

Question 19

What is zootomy?

Answer 19

Zootomy deals with the dissection or anatomy of animals.

Question 20

What are the applications of zoology?

Answer 20

Zoology provides insight into how life works, helps humans appreciate nature, and enhances understanding of animals.

Question 21

What is the structure of an animal cell?

Answer 21

An animal cell is a eukaryotic cell covered by a plasma membrane, multicellular, and contains organelles except for a cell wall and chloroplast.

Question 22

What is the function of a vacuole?

Answer 22

A vacuole serves as storage for the cell membrane sac.

Question 23

What does a lysosome do?

Answer 23

A lysosome digests foods and broken organelles; it cleans up and recycles.

Question 24

What is the role of ribosomes?

Answer 24

Ribosomes are protein factories that build proteins from DNA.

Question 25

What does the golgi apparatus do?

Answer 25

The golgi apparatus sorts, labels, and ships proteins in vesicles.

Question 26

What is cytoplasm?

Answer 26

Cytoplasm is the jelly-like material that holds organelles in place.

Question 27

What is the function of the nucleus?

Answer 27

The nucleus protects the DNA.

Question 28

What does the nucleolus produce?

Answer 28

The nucleolus produces ribosomes.

Question 29

What is the role of the nuclear membrane?

Answer 29

The nuclear membrane protects the nucleus.

Question 30

What does the cell membrane control?

Answer 30

The cell membrane controls the movement of materials in and out of the cell.

Question 31

What is the function of mitochondria?

Answer 31

Mitochondria make ATP for cellular respiration.

Question 32

What does smooth ER do?

Answer 32

Smooth ER transports ribosomes and produces lipids.

Question 33

What is the function of rough ER?

Answer 33

Rough ER makes proteins.

Question 34

What do centrioles do?

Answer 34

Centrioles replicate and reproduce.

Question 35

What are microtubules?

Answer 35

Microtubules give the cell structure.

Question 36

What is the cytoskeleton?

Answer 36

The cytoskeleton is the framework of the cell.

Question 37

What is the taxonomy system?

Answer 37

The taxonomy system classifies animals into kingdoms, with the animal kingdom being the largest.

Question 38

What are the seven major groups in scientific classification?

Answer 38

The seven major groups are: Kingdom, Phylum/Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

Question 39

What is an invertebrate animal?

Answer 39

An invertebrate animal is one that has no backbone.

Question 40

What is the scientific name for invertebrate animals?

Answer 40

Invertebrata is the scientific name assigned to animals without backbones.

Question 41

What is a vertebrate animal?

Answer 41

A vertebrate animal is one that has a backbone or vertebrae.