History of Biology
Who developed the Theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
This is the process invented by Louis Pasteur that kills bacteria in milk by heating it.
Pasteurization
If you put a soda can in the freezer for too long, why does it explode?
What is hydrolysis and dehydration synthesis?
Breaking something by adding water and forming something by taking away water respectively.
Biology literally means what?
The study of life
This scientist was a pioneer in microscopes and was the first to name microbes that he found in his lake. He called them animalcules.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
What was the "day job" of Gregor Mendel, the scientist who bred pea plants to discover inheritance?
Monk
Define adhesion and cohesion.
Bonding something to something else and bonding two of the same thing, respectively.
What is it called when two water molecules are interacting because of their partial polarity?
Hydrogen bond
Name all eight levels of living things in order.
Start with atoms and end with organism.
atoms - molecules - organelles - cells - tissues - organs - organ system - organism
What was a common medical practice in the days before the scientific revolution? This practice is undoubtedly more harmful than helpful.
Blood letting
Who discovered Penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
When water beads up on a table or allows a water strider to glide across, this is an example of ...
Surface Tension
Table salt, sodium chloride, is an example of what bond type?
Ionic
Name three characteristics of life.
Order, response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth, homeostasis, uses energy.
Who discovered the shape of DNA? (the double helix)
Their work was stolen without credit by other geneticists.
Rosalind Franklin
What field did Carl Linnaeus contribute to? We still use this system today that he invented.
Taxonomy, Binomial Nomenclature
If you jump into a pool on a hot day and then step into the breeze, why does it feel cold?
High heat of vaporization
Water carries lots of heat energy with it when it evaporates.
Describe what is happening between two atoms in a non-polar covalent bond.
Name two things doctors did to George Washington to "cure him" before he painfully died?
Blood letting
Drank acid causing blisters
Enema
Tinctures
Roughly when was the scientific revolution? What century?
1600s - 1700s
What was the early name for scientist?
This was essentially wealthy people who devoted their free time to learning about the world around them.
Naturalists
What causes water to heat up and cool down more slowly than something like a metal pan?
High specific heat capacity
What is the bond between an Oxygen atom and a Hydrogen Atom? Be specific!
Polar Covalent bond
A fungus.