Biology

Biology is the science that studies living organisms. All around us are other life forms living in caves, trees, under rocks, in water, the oceans and on land. A biologist is a person who studies biology.

There are 5 unifying principles of biology: cell theory; evolution; genes; homeostasis; and energy. Biological systems can be difficult to study because there are so many different interactions with other organisms and the environment even on the smallest of scales. Biologists believe that there are over 10 million different kinds of life forms or species on Earth.

There are also many branches of biology including agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, botany, cryobiology, entomology, genetics, marine biology, oceanography, virology and zoology to name just a handful. The word biology is made up of two smaller words: bio meaning life and logy meaning the study of science. Biology is the science of life and plays a large part in the development of health treatments, new solutions for diseases, and solutions for genetic issues like hair loss.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Biology”

• The social life of plants

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 130
  New research has discovered that plants are social creatures. A common flowering plant, Impatiens pallida , devotes less energy than usual to growing roots when surrounded by relatives. In other words it tries not to take too many resources away from its family. But , in the presence of genetically unrelated ...
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• No bird flu pandemic

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 157
  Why Bird Flu Has Not Caused a PandemicScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2009) — Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human
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• Hearing in mosquitoes

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 157
  Active Hearing Process in MosquitoesScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2009) — A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female’s wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises.
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• Looking back, 1919 has lessons for today

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 631
  It was a long human lifetime ago, yet it was only yesterday. It was a time of tumult when writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said that a young generation had "grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in men shaken." It was the year 1919, and even after the passage of 90 years, it was a year that still has ...
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• ‘American megafauna not killed off by Clovis people’

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 446
  This video from the USA says about itself: In 2005, fossilized mastodon remains were discovered in Pratt’s Wayne Woods Forest Preserve in Wayne. During the course of a habitat-improvement project, a contractor for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County made an initial discovery – teeth from a mastodon . ...
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• It Just Isnt Natural. Literally.

  
  EtsyVeg — Authority: 126
  Have you ever given any thought to what humans are really supposed to eat? I mean, biologically. Because its definitely not hamburgers and twinkies. Before humans learned to make fire, we were gatherers and foragers. We. Ate. Plants. And according to our bodies, we are still supposed to be eating plants. Anatomically ...
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• Why Malt the Barley for Beer?

  
  Aardvarchaeology — Authority: 514
  Dear Reader, usually the deal here on Aard is that I tell you what to think and you reply, zombielike, "Yes... Master... Kill... Kill...". But today, lets turn the tables. Im going to ask a question about a simple scientific-culinary matter that has baffled me for decades. And I hope someone out there knows enough ...
  9 hours ago

• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 471
  On this date in 1803, the famous German bandit “Schinderhannes” and 19 others of his gang were efficiently guillotined in French-occupied Rhineland. Schinderhannes with mistress Juliana Blasius and their child. As low-born as they come, Johannes Bückler ( English Wikipedia link | German ) hailed from a ...
  14 hours ago

• The amazingly exciting intersection of construction materials and bacteria.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 746
  Self-healing bio-concrete.
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• The Reading Brain

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 478
  Huh, I guess I need to add Stanislas Dehaene’s new book, Reading in the Brain, to my shopping list. The second major mystery explored by Dehaene is how reading came to exist. It’s a mystery that’s only deepened by the recency of literacy: the first alphabets were invented less than 4,000 years ago, ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 5: Crocoduck

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 113
  With Ray Comfort releasing a version of Darwin’s Origin of Species with a 50 page propaganda introductions I decided to talk about this dumb asses dumb ass arguments starting with the Crocoduck.Its basically the argument “why don’t we find fossils that are half ‘this’ and half ‘that’?” where said ...
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• Its a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 609
  In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS ( http://www.genetics.org ), scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene. This gas affects many aspects of plant development, and this ...
  18 hours ago

• Pro-death

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 137
  They call themselves pro-life, but their votes against stem cell research are pro-death . We should call them out on that.
  19 hours ago

• Logging, Lynx and Marten: How Forest Practices Can Influence Furbearer Numbers

  
  Trapping Today — Authority: 411
  In a state almost completely covered with trees, forest harvest practices in Maine can seriously influence populations of many of the furbearers that call the Maine woods home.Two such furbearers, the American marten and Canada lynx, depend on certain forest types for their survival.  Lynx need 20-40 year-old ...
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• The Sexual Mystery of the Decade: Maleness glue

  
  Blag Hag — Authority: 590
  When I was in high school, I was part of an academic competition called Science Olympiad . Yes, I was a nerd, big surprise - but Science Olympiad was a level of awesome that far surpassed your typical quiz team. A team of fifteen would send two or three individuals to compete in events, with formats like typical ...
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• The new miracle cure for injuries?

  
  Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff) — Authority: 557
  Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has flown to Serbia for a novel form of treatment – placenta fluid is to be dripped on his injured ankle. Why is he doing this and will it work? It is not unusual for sports starts to look for super cures for their injuries. England footballer Wayne Rooney used an oxygen tent ...
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• Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 803
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is ...
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• Atomic-level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action (w/ Video)

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 803
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). These protein motors play pivotal roles in gene ...
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• Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 140
  A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this weeks JBC, researchers in Italy have reconstructed one of the earliest evolutionary steps yet: generating long chains of RNA from ...
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• Howard TV – This Is Beetle (Episode One)

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 577
  This Is Beetle (Episode One) – Howard TV $ Related Posts: The Promoter (Killers Of Comedy, Seattle Show) - Episode 2
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