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2006-08-31 20:26:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Biology means a way to know about life.
2006-08-31 20:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by Hardik Joshi 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What is Biology?
Biology is the study of life. As we study biology, we will frequently run across a lot of “bigwords” that you will need to learn. One thing that can help you understand those words, which will also aid you in everything from reading the newspaper to communicating with your doctor, is to know the Greek or Latin (or other) derivations of the wordstems which make up those words. For example, the word “biology” is made from the word stems bios, which means “life,” and -logy which means “to study” or “the study of.”
Anatomy - The study of body parts and their locations
ana = up tom= to cut
Botany - The study of plants
botan = grass, pasture
Cytology -The study of cells
cyto = cell
Ecology - The study of the interrelations between organisms and their environment
eco = house
Entomology - The study of insects
entomol = insect
Genetics - The study of genes and heredity
gene = origin, birth
Microbiology - The study of bacteria and other microscopic organisms
micro = small
Molecular Biology - The study of the various molecules and chemical reactions that take place in organisms
molecul = a little mass
Paleontology - The study of formerly-living organisms like fossils and dinosaurs
paleo = ancient
onto = being, existing
Physiology - The study of how various body parts function
physio = nature
Zoology - The study of animals
zoo = animal
2006-09-01 04:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by hamdi_batriyshah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Biology = science that deals with living things
2006-09-01 03:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by MiLuv 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
BIO = Life
OLOGY = the study of
so Biology means the study of life.
2006-09-01 03:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by kingofnarniaforever 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey! if u needed a funny answer this should have been under the 'jokes & riddles' category
Here is what biology means non funnily:-
Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. It is concerned with the characteristics, classification, and behaviors of organisms, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the environment. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (biological phenomena) over a wide range of scales, from biophysics to ecology. All concepts in biology are subject to the same laws that other branches of science obey, such as the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass.
Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetleAt the organism level, biology has partially explained phenomena such as birth, growth, aging, death and decay of living organisms, similarities between offspring and their parents (heredity) and flowering of plants which have puzzled humanity throughout history. Other phenomena, such as lactation, metamorphosis, egg-hatching, healing, and tropism have been addressed. On a wider scale of time and space, biologists have studied domestication of animals and plants, the wide variety of living organisms (biodiversity), changes in living organisms over time (evolution), extinction, speciation, social behaviour among animals, etc.
While botany encompasses the study of plants, zoology is the branch of science that is concerned about the study of animals and anthropology is the branch of biology which studies human beings. However, at the molecular scale, life is studied in the disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. More fundamental than these fields is biophysics which deals with energy within biological systems. At the next level, that of the cell, it is studied in cell biology. At the multicellular scale, it is examined in physiology, anatomy, and histology. Developmental biology studies life at the level of an individual organism's development or ontogeny. Moving up the scale towards more than one organism, genetics considers how heredity works between parent and offspring. Ethology considers the behaviour of groups of organisms. Population genetics looks at the level of an entire population, and systematics considers the multi-species scale of lineages. Interdependent populations and their habitats are examined in ecology and evolutionary biology. A speculative new field is astrobiology (or xenobiology), which examines the possibility of life beyond the Earth.
It is important to note that the term "life sciences" is beginning to take on a slightly different meaning from "biology." The life sciences include botany, ecology, evolutionary science, biology, and more. Biology, in turn, tends to include microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, neurobiology, immunology, molecular genetics, cell biology, and a few other subjects. Biology tends NOT to include botany, ecology, evolutionary science, and a few other disciplines. This division should not be seen like the division between physics and chemistry, but more like the division between physics and astronomy/planetary sciences, where the latter subjects (astronomy/planetary sciences) use concepts from its parent science (physics). The division between ecology/botany/evolutionary science/etc. from biology can be seen most clearly at MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Rockefeller University, where these institutions don't even provide any program of education (i.e. major) leading to a degree one of the allied subjects of biology (ecology/botany/evolutionary science/etc.) Although this may change in the future, it can be said that the CORE natural sciences are physics (not including astronomy/planetary sciences/etc.), chemistry, and biology (not including ecology/etc). Even many larger institutions are dividing their faculty members according to this definition of biology (i.e. UC Berkeley, Harvard). Some other institutions do not do this (i.e. USC, Stanford).
2006-09-01 03:48:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's the study of living creatures and organisms.
2006-09-01 03:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the branch of science that deals with the study of life...
2006-09-01 04:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by _neEyOhw_ 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
study of all the four legged plants N animals around u...
2006-09-01 03:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by punter 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
B - because you asked
I - its for you to find
O - only normal persons
L - love to know the real one
O - or else you are ab normal
G - go on think and find
Y - yah even me still looking for non sense one!
2006-09-01 03:40:07 · answer #9 · answered by ofalsa 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋