Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Term Biology

I was ironically sitting in my biology honors class thinking about what biology is. Well that is what I am learning right? But I wanted to know what the actual term means and where is came from. The term "biology" was first used by Karl Burdach (1776-1847) to denote the study of man. Jean Babtiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck (1744-1829) gave the term a broader meaning in 1812. The broader meaning was the "integral character of science".  The term was coined together from special sciences such as chemistry, meteorology, geology, and botany-zoology.
Biology is the science that deals with living things (Greek bios "Life"). It was broadly dived into two areas zoology, the study of animals, and botany, the study of plants. Biology is now divided and sub divided into hundreds of sub categories involving function, structure, and classification of the forms of life. Some sub categories include anatomy, ecology, embryology, evolution, genetics, paleontology, and physiology. One of my current favorites is anatomy. 



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