Introduction to the Living Animal Flashcards
(36 cards)
It is the scientific study of animal life.
Zoology
The word zoology comes from the Greek words “___________”, meaning “animal”, and logos, meaning “the study of”.
zōion
In zoology, we document the diversity of animal life and organize it in a _____________ way.
systematic
Strives to explain how animal diversity originated and how animals perform the basic processes of life that permit them to _____________ diverse environments.
inhabit
Zoology is the branch of biology concerned with the study animals and animal kingdom. It is also known as __________________.
animal biology
The study of zoology includes the interaction of animal kingdom in their _______________ such as classification, habits, structure, embryology, distribution, evolution, and extinct species.
ecosystems
He best known as one of the most prominent philosophers of all time. He was also an esteemed student of Plato and later became Alexander The Great’s teacher. Although less known as a zoologist, he is to be thanked for the first-ever classification of the animal kingdom.
Aristotle
He proposed that the animal kingdom should be classified as blooded and non-blooded animals along with its respective sub-classifications.
Aristotle
He is a famous botanist, physician, and zoologist who is considered to be the father of modern taxonomy.
Carolus Linnaeus
During his life, and especially during the 1750s, he classified an extraordinary number of animals that he collected on his own.
Carolus Linnaeus
One of Carolus Linnaeus’s most prominent works _________________, where he introduced his taxonomy, was first published in the Netherlands.
Systema Naturae
Carolus Linnaeus was the
first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them, also known as ______________________
binomial nomenclature
French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
It is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime
Lamarckism,
According to him, all species have come from a common ancestor and have evolved through the
process of natural selection. His continuous insights and studies on different classes of animals have resulted in an immense collection of data, which was later published through his books.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is best
known for his groundbreaking book ___________________________________________, published in the 19th century.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Before Darwin, _____________ was the one who came up with his own theory of natural selection. It was his work that influenced Darwin and his Theory of Evolution.
Alfred Russel Wallace
He is regarded as the father of biogeography due to his research on the basin of the river Amazon.
Alfred Russel Wallace
She is an anthropologist and naturalist famous for her decades-long study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. She is considered to be a world-renown expert on chimpanzees in general and held the role of UN’s Messenger of Peace.
Jane Morris Goodall
also called descriptive zoology or zoogeography, is the study of animals and their habitats. It is concerned with the geographic ranges of specific populations of animals, their effects on the ecosystems they live in.
Zoography
It is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different types of animals. Closely related animals like mammals share common bones, even if these bones have been extremely modified in shape. For example, bat wings are essentially very long, thin bones that are homologous to the ones in human fingers.
Comparative anatomy
It is the study of the bodily processes that occur in animals that allow them to maintain homeostasis and survive. Homeostasis is the ability of the body to maintain a relatively constant equilibrium even in a changing environment. One example is the regulation of body temperature in mammals. Humans have a normal body temperature of about 37°C (98.6°F), even when the environment they are in is much colder.
Animal Physiology
It involves the study of processes like temperature regulation, blood pressure and blood flow, and the release of hormones at specific times in the body.
Animal physiology
It is the study of animal behavior, usually in regard to in their natural environment. It involves
the study of animal learning, cognition, communication, and sexuality, and is related to evolutionary
biology and ecology.
Ethology
