why is biology intresting?
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wow, i'm obviously biased being a bio major, but how can it NOT be interesting????  it is the science of life!!!  the processes of the body, animals, plants, immune system, and on and on and on, microbiology is especially facinating, infectious disease, forensic biomechanics, oofda!
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we a biologial element in this universe n everything around us revolves around biological reactions.a very simple example is that every mrng the sandwich u have is a biological reaction btw wheat n yeast n the yoghurt is a biological reaction btw milk n some milk curldling bacteria.the list continues .thus biology forms the life around us
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"Branches of Biology\nBecause there is such a huge variety of living things on the earth, the science of biology has many different branches and areas of study. Depending on their discipline, biologists usually research one or more of the following categories: \n\nMicrobiology, a study dealing with the structure and existence of microorganisms, which are tiny life forms such as a bacteria or a virus; \nZoology, which is the study of animal life; \nBotany, which is focused on plant life; \nAnd physical anthropology, where scientists study human life, such as our existence and how we interact with other life forms. \nBiologists also use other sciences to research life. Without chemistry and physics, much of the knowledge we have gathered about life would have been impossible to collect. \n\nIn an effort to answer the “what is life” question, much of the history of biological study has been focused on trying to classify and define life forms. The four categories above led to the development of many subcategories as biologists learn more about the depth and complexity of living things. Some of the other subdivisions of biology are:- \n\nPhysiology\nStudy of the vital functions and basic activities of living organisms - cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems - and their parts, in relation to the whole. \nEmbryology\nStudy of the formation and development of organisms from the zygote, or fertilised egg. Confined mainly to multi-celled organisms. \nTaxonomy\nHierarchical classification of natural organisms indicative of their structures and differences. \nGenetics\nStudy of inheritance and variation in organisms, and mechanisms by which these operate; causes of similarities and differences among related individuals. \nEcology\nStudy of relationships between organisms and their environment; the interactions of individuals within groups and with their suroundings. \nMorphology\nThe study of the shapes of plants and animals. \nMolecular Biology\nStudy of chemical processes at the level of large organic molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. \nBiochemistry\nStudy of the chemical processes within living systems as a whole. \nMicrobiology\nThe study of micro-organisms - their structure, function, and significance."
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biology is the study of living things
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depends...i guess you could say it's really important since biology is all about how you and everything else stays alive.  But then, most people won't use it except to answer along with people on game shows.  Others will use it if they're doctors, nurses, science teachers, paleontologists, scientists, some military personel, etc.\n\nGuess it just depends!
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Because it helped us to understand the mechanism by which cells and organisms pass information from parent to offspring.  It also opened the door for research that can help prevent and cure genetic diseases caused by mistakes made during DNA replication, etc.
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biology, the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology, the study of animal life, and botany, the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these sciences include cytology (the study of cells), histology (the study of tissues), anatomy or morphology, physiology, and embryology (the study of the embryonic development of an individual animal or plant). Also included in biological studies are the sciences of genetics, evolution, paleontology, and taxonomy or systematics, the study of classification. The methods and attitudes of other sciences are brought to the study of biology in such fields as biochemistry (physiological chemistry), biophysics (the physics of life processes), bioclimatology and biogeography (ecology), bioengineering (the design of artificial organs), biometry or biostatistics, bioenergetics, and biomathematics. Evidences of early human observations of nature are seen in prehistoric cave art. Biological concepts began to develop among the early Greeks. The biological works of Aristotle include his observations and classification of his large collections of animals. The invention of the microscope in the 16th cent. gave a great stimulus to biology, broadening and deepening its scope and creating the sciences of microbiology, the study of microscopic forms of life, and microscopy, the microscopic study of living cells. Among the many who contributed to the science are Claude Bernard, Cuvier, Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Lamarck, Linnaeus, Mendel, and Pasteur.
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Didn't you pretty much anwser it for yourself. I didn't see the anwsers you got before but basic biology explains this quite completely.
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To gain a better understanding of microorganisms (and their biological processes) and the part that they play in the world.\n\nMost often, you hear about these terms in the study of pathogens (diseases) that affect humans and animals. However, some parasites are useful and have formed a symbiotic relationship with their host organsism.\n\nFor example, the infamous E. coli bacteria can cause illness if it gets into the wrong parts of your body, but are quite helpful if they stay put. \n\nMicrobiolgy also helps understand how the life processes work done at the cellular level. This helps us formulate drugs and treatments for different ailments, from mineral deficiencies to cancers.\n\n~X~
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Biology has traditionally consisted of botany, zoology and microbiology.  Chemistry has consisted mainly of physical, organic, analytical and biochemistry.  Until relatively recently those divisions have held up reasonably well.  Now there is a whole new world of chemical and physical biology and biochemistry and biophysics.  To throw all of biology and chemistry into biochemistry would be a misnomer for many of the parts of both.  To add biochemistry or chemical biology into one pot might be a good idea to catch the questions in the area betwen
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Quite a lot... see the links. Biology is the science of life, so as you can imagine, that subject has a wealth of sub-headings. It relates to chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, anatomy, botany, genetics,  and many other sciences.\n\nIt will depend on what level of biology course you are taking, but I've included a syllabus for some courses in the links.
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biology:n. The scientific study of living things and their life processes
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Human biology. I like it best because there is so much that we can and will learn about the human body. The human body is the most sophisticated machine ever created. God is a total genius.
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study of the substances found in living organisms, and of the chemical reactions underlying life processes. This science is a branch of both chemistry and biology; the prefix bio- comes from bios, the Greek word for “life.” The chief goal of biochemistry is to understand the structure and behavior of biomolecules. These are the carbon-containing compounds that make up the various parts of the living cell and carry out the chemical reactions that enable it to grow, maintain and reproduce itself, and use and store energy.\n\nA vast array of biomolecules is present in the cell. The structure of each biomolecule determines in what chemical reactions it is able to participate, and hence what role it plays in the cell's life processes. Among the most important classes of biomolecules are nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.\n\nNucleic acids are responsible for storing and transferring genetic information. They are enormous molecules made up of long strands of subunits, called bases, that are arranged in a precise sequence. These are “read” by other components of the cell and used as a guide in making proteins.\n\nProteins (see Protein) are large molecules built up of small subunits called amino acids. Using only 20 different amino acids, a cell constructs thousands of different proteins, each of which has a highly specialized role in the cell. The proteins of greatest interest to biochemists are the enzymes (see Enzyme), which are the “worker” molecules of the cell. These enzymes serve as promoters, or catalysts, of chemical reactions.\n\nCarbohydrates (see Carbohydrate) are the basic fuel molecules of the cell. They contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in approximately equal amounts. Green plants and some bacteria use a process known as photosynthesis to make simple carbohydrates (sugars) from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. Animals, however, obtain their carbohydrates from foods. Once a cell possesses carbohydrates, it may break them down to yield chemical energy or use them as raw material to produce other biomolecules.\n\nLipids are fatty substances that play a variety of roles in the cell. Some are held in storage for use as high-energy fuel; others serve as essential components of the cell membrane.\n\nBiomolecules of many other types are also found in cells. These compounds perform such diverse duties as transporting energy from one location in the cell to another, harnessing the energy of sunlight to drive chemical reactions, and serving as helper molecules (cofactors) for enzyme action. All these biomolecules, and the cell itself, are in a state of constant change. In fact, a cell cannot maintain its health unless it is continually forming and breaking down proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids; repairing damaged nucleic acids; and using and storing energy. These active, energy-linked processes of change are collectively called metabolism. One major aim of biochemistry is to understand metabolism well enough to predict and control changes that occur in cells. Biochemical studies have yielded such benefits as treatments for many metabolic diseases, antibiotics to combat bacteria, and methods to boost industrial and agricultural productivity. These advances have been augmented in recent years by the use of genetic engineering techniques.
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Hi!\nI change my field of study from physics to biophysics but still its a great pleasure to solve a problem in physics if you dont mind.\nWish to see your project.\nBye
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That's like asking "WHY does the sun shine?" or "WHY does the heart pump blood?"  (Really.  Think about it.  Can you answer those questions?  If so, then please add this to your question so we can understand what you mean by WHY.)\n\nScience can't offer an answer to this kind of WHY question.  We can understand the mechanisms involved (the sun shines because of nuclear fission ... what you're calling the HOW) or give an answer in terms of higher-level function (the heart pumps blood to keep the organism alive).  But we can't ask the sun or a heart WHY it does what it does.  Similarly we can explain the process of replication, and the function it serves to reproduction, but beyond that, science can't ask a DNA molecule WHY it does what it does.
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Evolution doesn't happen, one species doesn't evolve into another species.\nIn Darwin's time, scientists thought cells were just blobs of protoplasm. Since that time the advance of science has uncovered ever more powerful evidence that what Christians believe is true on all levels, including the natural world. And that is becoming even clearer today as scientists learn more about what is inside the cell-and especially the structure of DNA.\n\nAccording to cell biologist Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, "The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines."\n\nEven the simplest cells are bristling with high-tech machinery. On the outside, their surfaces are studded with sensors, gates, pumps and identification markers.\n\nInside, cells are jam-packed with power plants, automated workshops and recycling units. Miniature monorails whisk materials from one location to another. No such system could arise in a blind, step-by-step Darwinian process.\n\nThe most advanced, automated modern factory, with its computers and robots all coordinated on a precisely timed schedule, is less complex than the inner workings of a single cell.\n\n"A bacterium is far more complex than any inanimate system known to man. There is not a laboratory in the world which can compete with the biochemical activity of the smallest living organism. One cell is more complicated than the largest computer that man has ever made." - Sir James Gray, from Cambridge University\n\nDNA is like a language in the heart of the cell, a molecular message, a set of instructions telling the cell how to construct proteins-much like the software needed to run a computer. Moreover, the amount of information DNA includes is staggering: A single cell of the human body contains three or four times more information as all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. As a result, the question of the origin of life must now be redefined as the question of the origin of biological information. Can information arise by natural forces alone? Or does it require an intelligent agent?\n\nDNA is composed of ordinary chemicals (bases, sugars, phosphates that react according to ordinary laws. What makes DNA function as a message is not the chemicals themselves but rather their sequence, their pattern. The chemicals in DNA are grouped into molecules (called nucleotides) that act like letters in a message, and they must be in a particular order if the message is going to be intelligible. If the letters are scrambled, the result is nonsense. So the crucial question is whether the sequence of chemical "letters" arose by natural causes or whether it required an intelligent source. Is it the product of law or design?\n\nSince DNA contains information, the case can be stated even more strongly in terms of information theory, a field of research that investigates the ways information is transmitted. The naturalistic scientist has only two possible ways to explain the origin of life-either chance or natural law. But information theory provides a powerful tool for discounting both of these explanations. Both chance and law lead to structures with low information content, whereas DNA has a very high information content."\n\nThe sequence of basis in DNA can not be explained by natural law because there are no chemical laws that make any sequence more likely than another. At the same time these sequences are so complicated that they can not be explained by chance.\n\n"Based on probability factors any viable DNA strand having over 84 nucleotides cannot be the result of haphazard mutations. At that stage, the probabilities are 1 in 4.80 x 10. Such a number, if written out, would read: \n\n480,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000. \n\n"Mathematicians agree that any requisite number