The Core of Biology
Biology 101: Biology, biological sciences, and life sciences, all refer to the same thing: the science of living organisms. By living organisms we mean entities that are: comprised of one or more cells have structural complexity at multiple levels of hierarchy exchange materials and energy with their environment can respond to changes in their environment can reproduce themselves One thing that confuses a lot of fresh students is that people tend to think that Biology is a theoretical science, full of 'facts and figures'. Biology is a highly conceptual and experimental science. In this blog series, I shall try to elaborate on these. We want to understand the biological function in biology. The core of biology is understanding what a gene is, what the corresponding protein is, and how they can contribute to biological function. Here is an illustration to put that into perspective. This specifies three major pipelines of study in biology: Genetics: From Genes to Biological Fun...