introduction to biology

What is biology?

          

              Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organism, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution. Shortly biology is the science of life.

              It is concerned with the characteristic and behaviors of organism; how individuals come into existence, and how species evolve, and the interactions they have with each other and with their environment.

Discovery of biology

         

             The term biology is derived from the greek word- bios (life) and logia (study of) . The  latin- language  form  the term first appeared in 1736 when swedish scientist
Carl Linnaeus used biologi in his bibliotheca botanica.  The term biology was first coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamark and  Gottfried -Reinhold Treviranus in 1802.
              In 384-322 BC Aristotle dicover biology, especially important are his history of animal.Aristotle's successor at the lyceum, Theophrastus, wrote a series of books on botany in 371-287 BC.

Branches of biology

  Biological science is divided in  two types of branches; that is botany and zoology.

              Botany is also called as plant science , plant biology or phytology: is the science of plant life and a branch of biology,
that studies the plant kingdom, including structure, growth and differentiation, reproduction ,biochemistry and primary metabolism, chemical products, development ,diseases, evolutionary relationship, systematics and plant taxonomy. There are 26 branches of botany also have.
            Zoology is also called animal science or animal biology;that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystem.