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    Biology As Level

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    Biology is the study of living things and their vital processes. It deals with living things from the molecular level to populations of organisms. Biology is subdivided into fields that study different scales or types of life.

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    Biology is the study of living things and their vital processes. It deals with living things from the molecular level to populations of organisms. Biology is subdivided into fields that study different scales or types of life.

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    Biology is the study of living things and their vital processes. It deals with living things from the molecular level to populations of organisms. Biology is subdivided into fields that study different scales or types of life.

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    Biology

    Biology is a natural science discipline that studies living things. It is


    a very large and broad field due to the wide variety of life found on
    Earth, so individual biologists normally focus on specific fields.
    These fields are either categorized by the scale of life or by the
    types of organisms studied.
    , study of living things and their vital processes. The field deals with all the physicochemical aspects
    of life. The modern tendency toward cross-disciplinary research and the unification of scientific
    knowledge and investigation from different fields has resulted in significant overlap of the field of
    biology with other scientific disciplines. Modern principles of other fields—chemistry, medicine,
    and physics, for example—are integrated with those of biology in areas such as biochemistry,
    biomedicine, and biophysics.

    Biology is subdivided into separate branches for convenience of study, though all the subdivisions
    are interrelated by basic principles. Thus, while it is custom to separate the study of plants (botany)
    from that of animals (zoology), and the study of the structure of organisms (morphology) from that
    of function (physiology), all living things share in common certain biological phenomena—for
    example, various means of reproduction, cell division, and the transmission of genetic material.

    Biology is often approached on the basis of levels that deal with fundamental units of life. At the
    level of molecular biology, for example, life is regarded as a manifestation of chemical
    and energy transformations that occur among the many chemical constituents that compose an
    organism. As a result of the development of increasingly powerful and precise laboratory
    instruments and techniques, it is possible to understand and define with high precision and accuracy
    not only the ultimate physiochemical organization (ultrastructure) of the molecules in living matter
    but also the way living matter reproduces at the molecular level. Especially crucial to those advances
    was the rise of genomics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

    Cell biology is the study of cells—the fundamental units of structure and function in living
    organisms. Cells were first observed in the 17th century, when the compound microscope was
    invented. Before that time, the individual organism was studied as a whole in a field known
    as organismic biology; that area of research remains an important component of the biological
    sciences. Population biology deals with groups or populations of organisms that inhabit a given area
    or region. Included at that level are studies of the roles that specific kinds of plants and animals play
    in the complex and self-perpetuating interrelationships that exist between the living and the
    nonliving world, as well as studies of the built-in controls that maintain those relationships naturally.
    Those broadly based levels—molecules, cells, whole organisms, and populations—may be further
    subdivided for study, giving rise to specializations such as morphology, taxonomy, biophysics,
    biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics, and ecology. A field of biology may be especially concerned with
    the investigation of one kind of living thing—for example, the study of birds in ornithology, the study
    of fishes in ichthyology, or the study of microorganisms in microbiology.

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