IV. Choose the best answer to the questions (Tick-V):

1. What is the result of the modern tendency to unify scientific knowledge and investigation?

a) creation of new scientific disciplines

b) disappearance of biology as a science

c) development of such sciences as chemistry and physics

2. What is the current practice?

a) to investigate the difference between all living things

b) to investigate what all living things have in common

c) to investigate the relation between populations of animals and plants

3. What is biology approached today on?

a) on the basis of levels that deal with chemical structure of substances

b) on the basis of levels that deal with physical processes in electricity

c) on the basis of levels that deal with fundumental units of life

4. What is it possible to understand as a result of development of more powerful and precise laboratory instruments and techniques?

a) how living matter convert at the chemical level

b) how atoms move in molecules

c) how living matter reproduces at the molecular level

5. What is cell biology?

a) the study of a fundumental unit of structure and function in a living organism

b) the study of a molecular structure of substances

c) the study of function of blood in a living organism

6. What does population biology study?

a) the roles of body structure in the complex of functon of organism

b) the roles of cells in a molecular level

c) the roles of specific kinds of plants and animals in the complex and self-perpetuating interrelationships

7. What may a field of biology be especially concerned with?

a) the investigation of geography

b) the investigation of botany, zoology

c) the investigation of biochemistry

V. According to the text it can be said that:

(Tick the right statement – V)

1. Biology is the study of minerals and their chemical structure.

2. Modern prenciples of chemistry and physics are integrated with some areas of biology.

3. Biology is often approached today on the basis of levels that deal with fundumental units of life.

4. Molecular biology says that life is regarded as a manifestationof physical and electrical transformatons.

5. Now it is impossible to understand and define not onlythe invisible ultimate physiochemical organization of the molecules but how living matter reproduces.

6. Cell biology is a study of atomic structure of substances.

7. Population biology is a study of population of people and their relations.

8. It is necessary to subdivide biology into some specializatons.

VI. What is the main theme of the text “Classification in Biology”?

1. Biology as a science of living things.

2. Grouping in biology.

3. Biology as a science of atomic structure of substances.

4. Biology as a science of physical processes in molecules.

MODULE 6

BIOCHEMISTRY

UNIT 1

BIOCHEMISTRY

Pre-reading

Exercise 1. Look through the text and try to get the gist.

Exercise 2. Before reading the text memorize words and word combinations.

inanimate – неживий, бездушний

to probe – випробувати, зондувати

hereditary information – спадкоємна інформація

strand – берег, риса характеру

intermediary action – посередницька акція

surprisingly – несподівано

ailment – нездужання

disruption – розрив

to reveal – виявляти, викривати

herpes virus – вірус герпесу

to devise – винаходити

A-GROUP

Exercise 3. Underline suffixes and prefixes, translate the following words paying attention to the meanings of suffixes and prefixes. Define parts of speech.

1. to treat – treatment – treaty

2. to develop – development – developed – developing

3. to investigate – investigation – investigator

4. to act – action – to react – reaction –reactor

5. to employ – employment – unemployment – employer – employee

6. to degrade – degradation – degrading

7. to establish – establishment – established

8. to integrate – integer – integral – integration – integrated

9. to inform– information– informal(-ly) –informant –informative –informer

10. to transfer – transfer (n) – transferable

11. to relate – relation – relative – relativity – relationship

12. to separate – separation – separate (adj.) – separatist

13. to interfere – interference – interfering

14. to interpret – interpretation – interpreter

15. to search – research – researcher

16. to identify – identification – identical – identity

17. to accelerate – acceleration – accelerator

18. to correct – correction – corrector – corrective – correctly

Exercise 4. Read and translate the text.