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Biology
The natural science that involves the study of life and
living organisms, including their structure, function,
growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
The history of biology traces the study of the living
world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept
of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th
century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions
of medicine and natural history reaching back to
ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of
Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world. |
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Biology
Biology is the science of life and living things, and
their evolution. Living things include plants, animals,
fungi (such as mushrooms), and microorganisms such as
bacteria and archaea. |
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Biologists
People who study biology are called biologists. Biology
looks at how animals and other organisms behave and
work, and what they are like. Biology also studies how
organisms react with each other and the environment. It
has existed as a science for about 200 years, and was
preceded by natural history. Biology has many research
fields and branches. Like all sciences, biology uses the
scientific method. This means that biologists must be
able to show evidence for their ideas, and that other
biologists must be able to test the ideas for
themselves. |
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Fields of biology |
- Anatomy
- Botany
- Biochemistry
- Biogeography
- Biophysics
- Cell biology
- Cytology
- Developmental biology
- Ecology
- Entomology
- Ethology
- Evolution / Evolutionary biology
- Embryology
- Genetics / Genomics
- Herpetology
- Histology
- Human biology / Anthropology /
Primatology
- Ichthyology
- Limnology
- Mammalogy
- Marine biology
- Microbiology / Bacteriology
- Molecular biology
- Mycology / Lichenology
- Ornithology
- Parasitology
- Palaeontology
- Phycology
- Phylogenetics
- Physiology
- Taxonomy
- Virology
- Zoology
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