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.

Bloggers, who have an interest in biology whether they be students, researchers or just the general blogging public, will find Bloggapedia covers resources, book reviews and virtual labs.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “biology”

• in Family
  Glutamate, the Brain, and Autism: Revisited
  Recent studies have seen increased glutamate in brains of those with autism. But does that mean we should freak out about MSG?
  by scothoser / on Dec 5, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Why Tomatoes with Color Splotches are Tastier
  Same protein causes color and taste differences in two different varieties of tomatoes.
  by uzparacha / on Jul 1, 2012
• in TV
  Get the Skinny on Blubber: Inside Nature’s Giants Dissects a Sperm Whale
  New four-part science series gets under the skin of Earth’s largest inhabitants to reveal evolutionary secrets.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 14, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “biology”

 

• Spain and France agree on fishing quota swap

  
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  Spain and France have reached an agreement on swapping fishing quotas which will allow for Spain to fish more hake and monkfish, authorities said Saturday.
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• Did We Domesticate Ourselves, Like We Did With Dogs?

  
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  Carl Zimmer reported recently on some interesting genetic research on dogs that tells us a great deal about their divergence from wolves, but also reflects back on the social mind of people. Carl Zimmer,  From Fearsome Predator to Man’s Best Friend As they [Ya-Ping Zhang and others] reported on Tuesday [14 May ...
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• Healthy five-pound gorilla born at central Ohio zoo

  
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  A baby gorilla has been born to first-time parents at an Ohio zoo.
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• Zoo keeper mauled by tiger broke safety rules

  
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  Sarah McClay died at South Lakes Wild Animal Park after inexplicably walking into tiger enclosure, where she was mauled A zoo keeper who was mauled to death by a tiger had no reason to be in its enclosure, according to the animal parks owner. Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger at South Lakes Wild ...
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• Cockroaches Are Evolving To Evade Sugar Traps

  
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  Surprisingly, cockroaches are steering away from sugary-coated traps designed to kill them. The phenomenon has been subject to much scientific interest with many experts asking why they avoid the traps if they are coated in glucose - a tempting treat for cockroaches. A new study published in the May 24th edition of ...
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• Early Land Animals Lacked Good Bites

  
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  What had the legs of a ‘gator and the jaws of a fish? Why, the earliest land animals. Because a new study shows that animals evolved weight-bearing limbs long before they had the chompers to really take advantage of a terrestrial diet. The research is in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology . [Philip S. ...
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• Brain overload explains missing childhood memories

  
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  Scientists – and parents – have long wondered why we don’t remember anything that happened before age 3. As all parents know, no matter how momentous an event is in a toddler’s life, the memory soon drifts away and within months there isn’t even a wisp of it left. Now a new study shows that “infantile ...
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• A Smartphone App for the Living World

  
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  Imagine holding your smartphone up to the sky and detecting pollen in the air or bacteria in the water. Its like SpectraSnap  for the living world. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers developed the handheld hardware and smartphone app that transforms the camera and computing capabilities of the ...
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• UK: State of Nature

  
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  Source: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (UK) From Headlines: 60% of the 3,148 UK species we assessed have declined over the last 50 years and 31% have declined strongly. Half of the species assessed have shown strong changes in their numbers or range, indicating that recent environmental changes [...]
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• 3D Printer Used To Save Baby’s Life

  
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  … Bryan and April Gionfriddo have a 6-month-old baby, Kaiba, who suddenly couldn’t breathe due to his bronchus suddenly collapsing. The baby’s parents took him to the emergency room where it was determined Kaiba would require a splint being inserted in order to hold open his bronchial tube, to hopefully allow ...
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• Hormone levels may provide key to understanding psychological disorders in women

  
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  Women at a particular stage in their monthly menstrual cycle may be more vulnerable to some of the psychological side-effects associated with stressful experiences, according to a study from UCL. The results suggest a monthly window of opportunity that could potentially be targeted in efforts to prevent common mental ...
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• Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Calif. coast near Coronado

  
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  In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.
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• Max Perutz 1914-2002: the godfather of molecular biology - video

  
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  Scientists who worked with the Nobel prize-winning pioneer discuss his legacy alongside footage and previously unseen interviews        
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• Offering rewards boosts blood donations despite ban on payments

  
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  NY State Senate While it’s illegal to pay someone for a kidney or a lobe of their liver, it’s completely legal to offer blood donors a small reward for giving a pint or two of blood. But for some people, accepting a reward in exchange for a blood donation raises both eyebrows and moral questions. To ...
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• Naturalism, Intelligent Design and Extraordinary Claims

  
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  The late Carl Sagan is credited with popularizing the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. (hereinafter this will be referred to as the “EC-EE” claim) While the phrase has become the skeptic’s mantra, its original roots probably trace back to the French mathematician and astronomer ...
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• Mary Roach Takes A Trip Down the Alimentary Canal

  
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  Groucho Marx said, “Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read.” With this wisdom available for decades, the question arises: Why did author Mary Roach stick her arm inside a living cows stomach, where its too dark to write? Answer: Because thats the kind of thing Roach ...
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• Taking politics into account helps craft effective recycling message

  
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  Canton Public Library (MI) Recently we covered some research that suggested pro-environment messages dont just fall on deaf ears when it comes to people on the conservative end of the political spectrum (and even some moderates)—pro-environment messages actively discourage those people from making ...
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• Glow-in-the-dark cockroach among top 10 new species

  
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  A glowing cockroach, a monkey with a blue behind and a meat-eating sponge snagged spots on a list of top 10 new species named in 2012, scientists announced Thursday.
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• Canadian Arctic bacterium offers clues to life on Mars

  
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  A team of Canadian researchers has discovered a bacterium that thrives in the Arctic regions, much below freezing point, at -15 degrees C in one the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth. The discovery of the bacterium Planococcus halocryophilus OR1 was made in Ellesmere Island, Canada, a ...
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• Not only is there no scientific method, but biology does not need math – says prominent evolutionary biologist

  
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  Okay, so cosmic Darwinism’s Lee Smolin doesn’t think there is a scientific method, and now it turns out the founder of sociobiology (father of evolutionary psychology), E.O. Wilson, doesn’t think that math matters much to science: During my decades of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright ...
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