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BIOLOGY

What queen was called Bloody Mary, and why? 1180.

What distinguished traveler traveled 8,000 miles on foot in four years

through Africa with no white companion? 557. How did Philip the Bold win his title? 1466. What earl had his ears boxed by the queen? 627. What queen planned the ruin of Cardinal Wolsey? 2104.

BIOLOGY

What questions belong under the subject of biology? 212.

What is the most wonderful thing about an animal or plant? 212.

What is biology? 212.

From what sciences is it easily separated? 212.

With what sciences is it closely connected? 212.

When did modern biology originate? 212.

What Greek philosopher is the best representative of the knowledge of his time about life? 213.

A few centuries later, what arrest took place? 213.

Who were the men who again started independent observation? 213.

In what does their work chiefly consist? 213.

In regarding animals and plants, what were the first things noticed? 213.

How were organisms studied at this time? 213.

What method did Linnaeus introduce for naming plants and animals? 213.

How did his work prepare the way for the discussion of the origin of species? 213.

What was the next step in the study of organisms? 213.

In consequence of this what new science was founded by Cuvier? 213. By Jussieu? 213.

What was the important study that Bichat engaged in extensively? 213.

What science did he found? 213.

What instrument opened a new world to naturalists? 213.

What new idea took definite form under the observations of Schleiden and Schwann? 213.

How does their discovery unite all animals and plants? 213.

What is their theory called? 213-4.

What is the importance of the fact that the egg of all animals and the ovule of all plants is a single cell? 214.

What new theory corrected the imperfections of the cell theory? 214.

How does Huxley define protoplasm? 1554.

Of what is it composed? 1554.

Is protoplasm alike in all human beings? 1554.

Why is the amoaba of great interest to biologists? 214.

How do its activities compare with those of higher organisms? 214.

What properties of protoplasm distinguish it absolutely from every form of non-living matter? 214.

Is protoplasm a complex substance? 214.

What has the physiological division of labor among the cells led to? 214.

What are the gradations between the single-celled and the many-celled conditions? 214.

In what four ways does biology consider animals and plants? 215.

How may animals and plants be considered in regard to their structure? 215.

In what two directions does the distribution of animals and plants extend? 215.

Why is the succession of life in the rocks very interesting? 215.

How does biology differ from botany and zoology? 215.

What three discoveries most distinctly mark biological advance during the nineteenth century? 215.

Wliat has the extension of knowledge regarding microbes and bacteria led to? 215.

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