Biology chp¹
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- Ada estimated that more than 1,000 varieties of rice had been developed
- With the invention of the microscope in the sixteenth century, a new world of minute animals and plants came to human knowledge
- The cell as the basic unit of living things was seen through the compound microscope
- Biology now began to grow in the nineteenth century
- Biology took several major leaps through the discovery of germs, wider acceptance of the theory of organic evolution, establishment of the cell theory
- The twenty-first century is poised to unravel more mysteries of nature, and miraculous advancements in medicine and agriculture
- Biology has already progressed a great deal in the field of vitamins, hormones, genetics, genetic engineering, antibiotics, cancer research, cloning, stem cell research, organ transplant, environmental sciences, and research in outer space
- Scientists are planning to create life, some single-celled bacteria, from lifeless material using fatty acids and nucleotides
- Branches of Biology
- Botany
- Zoology
- Human Biology
- Bacteriology
- Virology
- Mycology
- Phycology/Algology
- Entomology
- Ichthyology
- Herpetology
- Ornithology
- Anatomy
- Morphology
- Histology
- Cytology
- Physiology
- Embryology
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
- Biogeography
- Palaeontology
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Parasitology
- Pathology
- Immunology
- Eugenics
- Biochemistry
- Applied Biology
- Agriculture
- Apiculture
- Veterinary science
- Marine biology
- Household biology
- Horticulture
- Sericulture
- Pisciculture
- Molecular Biology
- Biotechnology
- Cloning
- Bioengineering
- Nuclear Biology
- Space Biology
- Exobiology
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Biometrics
- Biometrics is the verification of a person by body features such as fingerprints, the pattern of iris in the eye and behavioural characteristics