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The science of biology was invented by Aristotle (384–322 BC). Before Aristotle, many Greek philosophers had speculated about the origins of the Earth and of Life, but their theorizing was unsupported by empirical investigation. Aristotle’s work on plants is lost, but his research on animals produced outstanding results.
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Apr 11, 2008 · Pt.1. Biology in classical antiquity, the middle ages and the renaissance : history of biology during the renaissance -- pt.2. Biology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- pt.3. From Darwin to our own day
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Human biology is a diverse and multidisciplinary field that includes or borrows from anthropology, anatomy, auxology, evolu-tionary biology, genetics, geology, physiology, and zoology. In our studies of human biology we found that medical or general biology dictionaries often did not define many terms used in non-clinical human biology. This was es...
Bold terms in the body of a definition refer to an entry elsewhere in the dictionary. In the following entry, for example, ‡ matriline: pertaining to the lineal descent of anything passed from a mother to her offspring, such as access to territory or other resource, social status within a dominance system, or specific genes that display a pattern o...
the reader is referred to the entries maternal inheritance, mitochondrial DNA and hologyny for related or supplementary material, and to the terms patriline and holandry for contrasting material.
The authors thank the following individuals who participated in the pro-duction of this dictionary. Our acquisitions editors at Cambridge University Press, Tracey Sanderson and Dr Maria Murphy; our copy editor, Lynn Davy and our production editor, Jayne Aldhouse. Several anonymous reviewers who provided useful feedback with respect to both content ...
a-: not, without, negating ab-: away from abdom(in)-: abdomen, belly -able: capable (of) ac-: to, toward acet(o)-: vinegar acid-: sour, bitter, sharp acous-: hearing acro-: tip; top; height act-: do, drive, act acti(no)-: radius acu-: needle; sharp ad-: to, towards aden(o)-: gland adip(o)-: fat aer-: air, atmosphere; gas aesthe-: perceive, feel af-...
cine-: movement cingul-: girdle; belt -cipient: receive, receptor circum-: about, around (-)cis(-): near side of clad-: branch, offshoot (-)clas(-): break, fragmented cleav-: divide clin(o)-: bend, incline, slope clu-: shut, close co-: with, together cocc-: berry, grainlike (-)coel(-): swelling, cavity -coid: like col-: with, together colo(n): colo...
hem-: blood hemi-: half hen(o)-: one; year hepa-: liver hept(a)-: seven hered-: heir; inherit heter(o)-: other, different hex(a)-: six hidro-: sweat hist(o)-: tissue, web hod(o)-: road, path hol(o)-: whole, entire homeo-: same; constant horm-: impetus, impulse hyal(o)-: glasslike hydat-, hydr-: water hygr(o)-: wet; moist hyl-: wood; matter hyper-: ...
-parous: producing; birthing partum-: bear, give birth to path(o)-, -pathy: disease pec-: fix, make fast; comb ped(o)-, pedi-: child; foot; soil pell-: skin -pellent: drive pelv-: basin, bowel pen(e)-: need, lack; almost pend-: hang down -penia: deficiency pent(a)-: five pep-: digest; cook per-: through, completely peri-: around, surrounding pet-: ...
ta-: stretch, put under tension tac-: order, arrange tach-: swift, rapid, speed tact(i)-: touch tapein(o)-: flat; low taph-: grave, burial tax-, -taxis: order, arrange tect-, teg-: cover, roof tele(o)-: at a distance; end tempor-: time, timely; temple ten-: hold; stretched ter-: thrice, three test-: shell; oyster tetr-: four thec-: repository, case...
1 , 2 ° ° 3-D , etc. ACLU aka AMH Ar/Ar BCE BP(years) bp by bya CDC CE cf. DOE esp. FBI IgM, etc. IQ K/T ky kya my mya SI TL U/Th U-series primary, secondary, etc. three-dimensional American Civil Liberties Union also known as anatomically modern human argon–argon dating technique Before Common Era before present base pair(s) billions of years bill...
The finding at the National Library of Spain of an eighteenth-century engraving of the bridge over the river Milicia, along the coast to the east of Palermo, is a chance not only to shed light on the complex history of the design and construction of one of the main Sicilian bridges, but also to attribute the real paternity rather than to the famous architect Ferdinando Fuga to the lesser-known ...
Biological Terminology (Bio Terms): Latin & Greek Word Parts (Prefixes, Root Words, and Suffixes) Biology students are faced with the challenge of learning a large number of new terms predominately based on the Latin and Greek languages. Therefore, students should learn to recognize word parts since they often give clues as to the meaning of a ...
Generally speaking, Biology is a diverse and has many sub-categories yet this introductory book is a preliminary textbook and thereby it will present an essential account of biology chapters in year 2 through to year 6. That is, the theory of evolution, cell and gene theory, growth and reproduction theory and immune system. The brief
Oxford Dictionary of Biology (often abbreviated to ODB) is a multiple editions dictionary published by the English Oxford University Press. With more than 5,500 entries, [1] [2] it contains comprehensive information in English on topics relating to biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. [3] The first edition was published in 1985 as A Concise ...
