Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. It is concerned with the characteristics, classification, and behaviors of organisms, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the environment. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (biological phenomena) over a wide range of scales, from biochemistry to ecology. All concepts in biology are subject to the same laws that other branches of science obey, such as the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass.

At the organism level, biology has explained phenomena such as birth, growth, aging, death and decay of living organisms, similarities between offspring and their parents (heredity) and flowering of plants which have puzzled humanity throughout history. Other phenomena, such as lactation, metamorphosis, egg-hatching, healing, and tropism have been addressed. On a wider scale of time and space, biologists have studied domestication of animals and plants, the wide variety of living organisms (biodiversity), changes in living organisms over time (evolution), extinction, speciation, social behaviour among animals, etc.

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"My biology teacher tried to tell me that oxygen GROWS on trees... but it don't..."
All4LOVE89 (Mandy ) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:45:59 -0000
"My biology teacher tried to tell me that oxygen GROWS on trees... but it don't..."
@punkrockscience I feel the same way. All alone at the structural biology center. Boo.
modernscientist (themodernscientist) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:45:06 -0000
@punkrockscience I feel the same way. All alone at the structural biology center. Boo.
89.5 on the biology final.......really?
Stuley (Seth Tuley) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:43:30 -0000
89.5 on the biology final.......really?
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