Its Biology

A brief history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology was a single coherent field, it emerged from the traditions of medicine and natural history back to Ancient Egytptian and Greco-Roman world. The 18th and 19th centuries introduced botony and zoology. Cell theories provided a new perspective on the fundamentals of life.

Darwin's theory on evolution came into play. By the 20t century, genetics and DNA were researched. Although, biology is split between organism biology and fields realated to cellular and molecullar biology.

Cell structure

Biological molecules

Enzymes

Cell membranes and transport

Genetic control, protein structure and function

Nuclear division

Energy and Ecosystems

The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world. This ancient work was further developed in the Middle Ages by Muslim physicians and scholars such as Avicenna. During the European Renaissance and early modern period, biological thought was revolutionized in Europe by a renewed interest in empiricism and the discovery of many novel organisms. Prominent in this movement were Vesalius and Harvey, who used experimentation and careful observation in physiology, and naturalists such as Linnaeus and Buffon who began to classify the diversity of life and the fossil record, as well as the development and behavior of organisms. Microscopy revealed the previously unknown world of microorganisms, laying the groundwork for cell theory. The growing importance of natural theology, partly a response to the rise of mechanical philosophy, encouraged the growth of natural history (although it...