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Biology
Is the science that studies living beings, and more specifically,
their origin, evolution and properties: nutrition, morphogenesis,
reproduction (asexual and sexual), pathogenesis, etc. It deals both
with the description of the characteristics and behaviors of
individual organisms, and of species as a whole, as well as the
reproduction of living beings and the interactions between them
and the environment. In this way, it tries to study the structure
and functional dynamics common to all living beings, in order to
establish the general laws that govern organic life and the
fundamental explanatory principles of it.
In its modern sense, the word "biology" seems to have been
introduced independently by Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
(Biology of the Philosophie der lebenden Natur, 1802) and by
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Hydrogéologie, 1802). It is generally said
that the term was coined in 1800 by Karl Friedrich Burdach,
although it is mentioned in the title of the third volume of
Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geology,
biology, phytologia generalis et dendrologia, of Michael Christoph
Hanow and published in 1767.