2007-11-16 07:19:05 · 4 answers · asked by Jack X 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No, that is not true. Biologists have to know something about chemistry, but chemists do not have to anything about biology. Likewise, physicists have to be good in math, but mathematicians do not have to know anything about physics.
There is chemistry in biology, but there is no biology in chemistry. There is mathematics in physics, but there is no physics in mathematics.
2007-11-16 08:17:40 · answer #1 · answered by OKIM IM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's very interesting. I never thought of it that way. But it's that little bit of Biology that isn't Chemistry, that makes the Biologist a Biologist.
2007-11-16 15:29:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you reduce things to their roots, yes, your statement is correct. And that this math is statistics and those statistics are probabilities and yet Einstein did say god doesn't play dice (not that he knows either).
Anyway, even if this statement is true, the converse is not. Yes, you can reduce a biological organism down to all it's mathmatical components, but you'll never be able to build it up again, and that's why these disciplines are important in and of themselves.
2007-11-16 15:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by tiger b 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You need Math for any of the sciences.
2007-11-16 21:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by WarLabRat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋