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This document contains a brief summary of the subject zoology. It mainly focus on the introductory parts of the subject. It also contains some discussions about different phyla.
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1.
A branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom including the structure, evolution, embryology, and classification habits and distribution of all animals.
Answer: Zoology
2.
Study of interaction of organisms with other organisms and their environment.
Answer: Ecology
3.
Study of animal forms and structures and their specific structural features.
Answer: Morphology
4.
Study of distribution of species in geographic space.
Answer: Biogeography
5.
Study of classification and the evolutionary relationship of species.
Answer: Taxonomy
6.
Any of a diverse group of organic compounds including fats, oils, hormones and certain components of membranes that are grouped together because they do not interact appreciably with water.
Answer: Lipids
7.
Major component of all cell membranes; can form lipid bilayers because of their amphiphilic characteristics.
Answer: Phospholipid
8.
Discovered protozoa which he called “animalcules”.
Answer: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
9.
Observed tiny empty chambers in cork called “cells”; used primitive microscope to look at dead cells.
Answer: Robert Hooke
10.
Discovered the nucleus in plant cells.
Answer: Robert Brown
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