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Answer: Fisheries deals with the cultivation and management of fish and other aquatic organisms.
Answer: A forester manages and conserves forests.
Answer: Biochemistry links biology with chemistry by studying chemical reactions in living things.
Answer: Living organisms follow physical laws, which is why biophysics is a separate branch.
Answer: Parasitology is the study of parasites and their relationships with hosts.
Answer: Ornithology deals with the study of birds.
Answer: Ichthyology deals with the study of fishes.
Answer: Entomology is the scientific study of insects.
Answer: 3 x 10^3 equals 3000.
Answer: The scientific method is continuous; a rejected hypothesis is revised and tested again.
Answer: Biodiversity covers the variety of genes, species and ecosystems present in a region or on the whole Earth.
Answer: Genetic diversity is the variety of genes and alleles within a species, which helps populations adapt to changing environments.
Answer: Species is the basic unit of classification; closely related species are grouped into a genus.
Answer: Species diversity measures the number and variety of different species living in an ecosystem.
Answer: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced binomial nomenclature and is called the father of taxonomy.
Answer: In a scientific name, the first word is the genus name, written with a capital first letter.
Answer: The second word of a scientific name is the specific epithet, which identifies the species within the genus.
Answer: Panthera leo is the scientific name of the lion; the tiger is Panthera tigris.
Answer: According to the rules of binomial nomenclature, the genus starts with a capital letter and the species with a small letter.
Answer: In printed text scientific names are written in italics; when written by hand they are underlined.