1) NATURE AND SUBJECTS OF BIOPHYSICS - CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER

The subjects of biophysics are.................underlying all processes of living systems. Biophysics also studies the interactions of physical factors on physiological functions, which is a special subarea, called environmental biophysics.
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The subjects of biophysics are.................underlying all processes of living systems. Biophysics also studies the interactions of physical factors on physiological functions, which is a special subarea, called environmental biophysics.
physical principles
Biophysics is a/an/.......... science somewhere between biology and physics. It is connected with other disciplines, as well, such as mathematics, physical chemistry
and biochemistry.
interdisciplinary
Biophysics studies........of biological organization, from molecular processes
of biological to ecological phenomena.
all levels
The nature of biophysics is defined by.......rather than by the applied methods.
the scientific problems and approaches
Cybernetics deals with.......in men and machines.
control and communications
Biology claims to be a comprehensive science relating to all functions of......systems.
living
Borelli founded a school in Pisa of iatro-mathematics and iatro-physics in which the human body was perceived as a(n)
mechanical machine
iatro-physics has often been considered as a mechanistic forerunner of
medical biophysics
A decisive stimulus has been given to biophysical research through the discovery of X-rays. It was attributable to close cooperation between physicists, biologists and medical
scientists which laid the foundation of........which made significant contributions to the growth of modern molecular biology.
radiation biophysics
The word........was invented by a synthesis of "biology" and "technics" at a conference in Dayton, USA, in 1960.
bionics
During the 1780's, Luigi Galvani performed experiments at the University of Bologna involving frogs. The physics of electricity was thus studied in direct relationship with phenomena of..............electrophysiologyBiological membranes, as highly organized.............structures, are always attractive subjects for biophysical investigations.anisotropicTwo kinds of physical behavior meet at the molecular level of biological structures. On the one hand, there are stochastic.....................processes,based on the individual behavior of atoms, molecules or supramolecular structures. On the other hand, there are ........................ processes, based on the behavior of "large" bodies.microphysical ; macrophysicalThe macrophysics use the laws of classical physics. Our everyday experiences with macrophysical systems show us that their behavior is generally..........deterministicThe stochastic behavior of molecular systems can be transformed into a ...................... one by increasing the number of participating stochastic events or by limiting the degrees of freedom of the single reactions.deterministicIn contrast to isotropic systems, like simple solutions, in anisotropic systems the ......... of molecules in various directions is not identical, but is restricted in some directions, and promoted in others.mobilityIncreasing energy of light goes in the order:infrared, visible, ultravioletThe fundamental laws of diffusion were formulated by........,who in 1856 published the first biophysical text.FickBased on his physiological studies, Robert Mayer was able to formulate ..............the first law of thermodynamicsAn outstanding scientist in the history of biophysics is the German physicist and physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz who laid the foundations for the fundamental theories of...............vision and hearing