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Biology (Historical development (Sciences related to it have been studied…
Biology
Historical development
The word "Biology" was first used in in 1736 when Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus used biologi in his Bibliotheca Botanica
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Biology began to quickly develop and grow with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's dramatic improvement of the microscope
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The discovery of the physical representation of heredity came along with evolutionary principles and population genetics
Serious evolutionary thinking originated with the works of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who was the first to present a coherent theory of evolution
Methodology
Experimental research
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These approaches emphasize quantitative rather than qualitative data, often incorporate statistical analysis, and draw conclusions based on deduction rather than induction
Observational research
Observations are often used to generate a question and hypothesis, but can also be used to test them
Surveys, questionnaires, and interviews
These approaches are often used in studies of human biology, behavior, and psychology
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Language
Fundamental Ideas
Cell theory
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The cell is the fundamental unit of life,
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Genetics
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DNA
DNA influences the form or function of an organism. All organisms copies and translates DNA into proteins
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Real Life Situations
The Human Genome Project
an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA
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Aimed to map the nucleotides contained in a human haploid reference genome (more than three billion)
However, the project was not able to sequence all the DNA found in human cells
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