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Exercises

  1. Answer the questions:

  1. What does the word "biology" mean in the Greek language?

  2. Did the science biology begin in the period of time when the same term was coined?

  3. What scientists popularized the term "biology" in the early 19th century?

  4. Why did Huxley insist that all living things should be studied in an integrated way?

  5. What are the objects of biology?

  6. Is biology really the science of life? Explain your opinion.

  7. Why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish between plants and animals?

  8. According to what principles is biology subdivided into?

  9. What important advances in molecular biology have contributed to modern biology?

  10. What subdisciplines of biology are closely related to the basic structural unit of living matter?

  11. What is population biology?

  12. Do sociobiology and anthropology study the same objects?

  13. Can further shifts of boundaries and subdivisions of biology be expected?

  1. There are some subdisciplines of biology touched upon in the text. Find 20 of them and try to give definitions using the verbs:

to deal with; to be concerned with; to be linked with; to treat; to study.

  1. Work in pairs. Guess the missing term using the knowledge received in the course of study of general biology:

1. ... is the study of animals.

2. ... is the study of amphibians.

3. ... is the study of insects.

4. ... is the study of birds.

5. ... is the study of one-celled organisms.

6. ... is the study of fishes.

7. ... is the study of micro-organisms.

8. ... is the study of fungi.

9. ... is the study of man.

10. ... is the study of function of organism.

  1. Give English equivalents of the following phrases in the text:

условное разделение; взаимосвязь различных компонентов; изучать в совокупно­сти с; механизм наследственности; полностью оценить; основной вклад; проис­хождение жизни; долгий период забвения; исследование систем; огромное раз­нообразие жи­вых организмов; применение биологических знаний; сложный в оп­ределении; многоклеточные организмы; цель исследования.

  1. Give all possible variants and translate them into Russian:

general (biology, education, meaning, trends);

basiс (assumptions, features, principles, subdivisions);

to do (experimental work, research in smth., theoretical studies on);

tо make (a great contribution to, a discovery, an investigation on smth., observations, an experiment, a suggestion, a conclusion, a mistake, an approach, analyses, an abstract of, measurements);

to obtain (fresh-data, information, good results);

to gain (knowledge, recognition, experience).

  1. Continue the sentences based on the text:

  1. The limits of biology have always been difficult to … .

  2. The discovery of mechanism of … was a major breakthrough in modern biology.

  3. Molecules process energy needed to … life.

  4. Ch. Darwin's contributions … after a long period of … .

  5. Ecology is the study of populations in their natural … .

  6. A new development in animal behaviour studies is called ... .

  7. Biology includes the study of human at …, …, …, levels.