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1
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What is the study of biology?

A

Living things

2
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Who was biology first used by?

A

Lamarack

- he was a French naturalist

3
Q

When was biology first used?

A

1802

4
Q

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

A
  1. Medicine

2. Natural history (everything outside medicine)

5
Q

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

A
  1. It was illegal

2. It was hard to do

6
Q

What did they dissect instead of humans?

A

Animals

7
Q

What was one of the first model animals for dissection?

A

Barbary ape

8
Q

What does the discipline of history attempt to understand?

A

Human past

9
Q

What is the most broadest and most integrative discipline?

A

History

10
Q

What are the 5 subdivisions of history?

A
  1. History of geographic entities/political entities
  2. Political history
  3. Military history
  4. Economic history
  5. Biography
11
Q

History of geographic entities/political entities (2)

A
  1. History of Vancouver Island

2. History of Canada

12
Q

Political history

A

Traditional or global

13
Q

Military history

A

Major events of the world

14
Q

Economic history

A

Capitalism vs communism

15
Q

Who is Paracelsus?

A

Early chemist

16
Q

Historiography

A

The study of historical writing

17
Q

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

A
  1. Internal factors

2. External factors

18
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Internal factors

A

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

19
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External factors

A

Sharing ideas/effect progress of science

20
Q

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

A
  1. Biology

2. History

21
Q

When was the battle of Issus?

A

333BC

22
Q

Why do we study history? (5)

A
  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
23
Q

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to do what?

A

Repeat it

24
Q

What 2 things did George Santayana say?

A
  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
25
Q

Who were 4 people we have learned from?

A
  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Joseph Stalin
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. John Nash
26
Q

Winston Churchill

A

Famous for his speeches and for his refusal to give in, even when things are bad

27
Q

Joseph Stalin

A

Transformed the soviet union from a peasant society into an industrial and military super power
- ruled by terror

28
Q

Charles Darwin

A

Famous for his work on the theory of evolution

29
Q

John Nash

A

Received a Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory on non-cooperative games

30
Q

Connecting with the past on a emotional or spiritual level?

A
  • 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
31
Q

Guilty pleasure

A

Most of the stories are not true but interesting to listen too

32
Q

What can biology inquiry be seen as?

A

Attempt to answer 4 general questions

33
Q

What were the 4 general biology questions?

A
  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?
34
Q

What do scientists try and do?

A

Arrange life in a set order

- rational form

35
Q

What did people not believe long ago?

A

That things like bacteria existed because you could not see them

36
Q

What do we know through fossils?

A

That some organisms went extinct before humans arrived while some stayed

37
Q

Where do organisms come from?

A

Spontaneous generation

- sterile broth left for extended period of time started to develop micro-organisms

38
Q

How do organisms work? (2)

A
  1. Circulation of the blood

2. Electron transport chain

39
Q

Why do offspring resemble their parents?

A

Heredity

40
Q

BC

A

Before Christ

- 100 BC

41
Q

AD

A

Anno Domini

- AD 2016

42
Q

BCE

A

Before the Common Era

- 100 BCE

43
Q

CE

A

Common Era

- CE 2016

44
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Who did Aristotle live after?

A

Thales

45
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When Aristotle was young, who were old men? (2)

A
  1. Democritus

2. Hippocrates

46
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Who is Aristotle a younger contemporary of?

A

Plato