BIO 1130 Lecture 1: Major events in the history of Biology
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Slide 4: major events in the history of biology. Identify and understand the major events and findings in biology. Be able to place the main findings of biology in a historical context. Explain how biology differs from the other sciences. Understand how biology is done scientific method in natural sciences. The subject matter of our investigations will be the various forms and manifestations of life, the conditions and laws controlling their existence, and the causes by which this is affected. The science, which occupies itself with these subjects, we shall designate by the name of biology, or science of life. Biology was first defined by treviranus in 1802. The definition basically talks about life, what controls life, and how it is affected. Developmental biology - how plants and animals develop over time. Morphology - shapes and forms of animals. Slide 7: major events in the history of biology. Predarwinian and the natural sciences (400 bce - late 1800"s)
