Biology and Living Organisms
Biology is such a vast and an interesting field. We all are knowingly or unknowingly attached to the biology. It is all about the mechanism of our lives. Study of Biology includes many different aspects. During last century, biology has undergone a tremendous change with explosion of knowledge in general, and about living organism in particular. Biology literally means “the study of life”. Life occurs almost everywhere on earth, from the driest desert to the icy polar waters from the highest mountain peak to the deepest ocean trenches. Some of these are microscopic and single celled, while the others are many celled. Biologist have identified and named them. Study of all these is called BIOLOGY. Biology as a separate science was developed in the nineteenth century, as scientists discovered that organisms shared fundamental characteristics. It is now a standard subject of instruction at schools and universities around the world, and over a million papers are published annually in a wide array of biology.
Living organisms possess distinct characteristics but display organizational and functional unity, entail a mechanism of origin and evolution of diversities and maintain a balancing relationship with nature. All these aspects of life fall within the area of the science of Biology. Jean Baptiste Lamarck first suggested the term biology as the mane for the new science that he saw emerging from the fusion of the classical subject of the Zoology and Botany. It will also unravel the basic characteristic and organizations of living world, including molecular organization.
The study of Biology and living world is a special Endeavor of humans. Humans are biological beings and little different from the other living organisms. Although, animals several animals have curiosity, it is this feature that makes humans singularly different from other living organisms. We keeps pets, natural plants, visit zoological and botanical garden, all these activities reflect the innate attraction for humans for natural world and their feeling of connectedness of living things. In fact, the scientific extension of human curiosity has given birth to the science of Biology.
Living organisms interact with each other as well as their physical and chemical environment. However, biological systems, under the influence of nature show many exceptions with open mind because today’s exceptions may not remain so in the light of tomorrow’s knowledge and information. Biology as a discipline of science demands a scientific approach for analysis of its facts. Biology will give us all the knowledge about the different aspects of life. It will give us step by step learning for the lives.