Lesson 1

Question 1

How many animals did ARISTOTLE observed ?

Answer 1

500

Question 2

He is known as the father of modern taxonomy

Answer 2

Carl Linnaeus

Question 3

He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms

Answer 3

Carl Linnaeus

Question 4

He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection.

Answer 4

Alfred Russel Wallace

Question 5

Shetaught humans about chimpanzees

Answer 5

Jane Goodall

Question 6

What is the title of Charles Darwin’s book?

Answer 6

On the origins of species

Question 7

He is best known for rediscovering Mendel’s laws of heredity, coining the term “mutation”

Answer 7

Hugo De Vries

Question 8

T/F there is one distinguishing feature that separates living to non living things

Answer 8

False

Question 9

What are the characteristics of a living thing?

Answer 9

It responds to the environment.

It grows and develops.

It produces offspring.

It maintains homeostasis.

It has complex chemistry.

It consists of cells.

Question 10

It refers to the process of becoming adjusted to an environment.

Answer 10

Adaptation

Question 11

____ is the process of making the next generation and may be a sexual or an asexual process.

Answer 11

reproduction

Question 12

____ is the accumulated total of all the biochemical reactions occurring in a cell or organism.

Answer 12

Metabolism

Question 13

Homeostasis means

Answer 13

Steady state

Question 14

____ is the basic unit of structure and function of all living organisms

Answer 14

Cell

Question 15

It is s the field of biology that involves the study of animals.

Answer 15

Zoology

Question 16

A Greek word meaning animal

Answer 16

Zoion

Question 17

It encompasses all aspects of scientific knowledge about animals,

Answer 17

Zoology

Question 18

study of interaction between humans and other animals.

Answer 18

ANTHROZOOLOGY

Question 19

deals with the study of spiders and related species known as arachnids

Answer 19

Arachnology

Question 20

study of dead animals

Answer 20

Archaeozoology

Question 21

study of mechanical systems that function like living organisms or parts of living organisms.

Answer 21

Bionics

Question 22

study of marine mammals

Answer 22

Cetology

Question 23

studies the prenatal development of gametes, fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.

Answer 23

EMBRYOLOGY

Question 24

study of insects

Answer 24

Entomology

Question 25

 Entomology sub-branch that concerns with the study of beetles.

Answer 25

Caleopterology

Question 26

 sub-discipline of Entomology that studies all types of flies

Answer 26

Dipterology

Question 27

Sub-division of Entomology that studies true bugs or hemiptera.

Answer 27

Hemipterology

Question 28

Deals with animal behavior under their natural habitats

Answer 28

Ethology

Question 29

 study of parasitic worms

Answer 29

Helminthology

Question 30

 study of reptiles and amphibians.

Answer 30

Herpetology

Question 31

branch of Herpetology concerns with the study of amphibians alone.

Answer 31

Batrachology

Question 32

Sub-division of Herpetology which deals with the study of ophidians or snakes.

Answer 32

Orphiology

Question 33

study of microscopic anatomy of cells and tissues of animals and plants.

Answer 33

Histology

Question 34

covers the study of fish

Answer 34

Ichthyology

Question 35

 study of Mollusca

Answer 35

Malacology

Question 36

 sub discipline of malacology that deals with the study of mollusk shells only.

Answer 36

Conchology

Question 37

study of mammals

Answer 37

mammalogy

Question 38

study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

Answer 38

Morphology

Question 39

studies roundworms

Answer 39

Nematology

Question 40

deals with the study of fossil animals

Answer 40

Palaeozoology

Question 41

 study of bodily fluids

Answer 41

Pathology

Question 42

 study of living and extinct primates

Answer 42

PRIMATOLOGY

Question 43

study of Protozoa.

Answer 43

Protozoology

Question 44

study of geographical distribution of animal species

Answer 44

Zoogeography

Question 45

Study of animals and their habitats.

Answer 45

Zoography

Question 46

deals with measurements of animal parts.

Answer 46

Zoometry

Question 47

animal anatomy.

Answer 47

Zootomy

Question 48

_____ Is the assignment of a distinctive name to each species

Answer 48

Nomenclature