Biology – study of living organisms and various aspects like morphology

,classification ,interaction .
• father of biology – Aristotle .

Biology –
1. zoology – study related to animals .
2. botany – study related to plants .
• father of zoology – Aristotle (book – Historia animalium)
• father of botany – Theophrastus (book – Historia plantarum )
• firstly the term biology was pronounced by – Lamarck and
Treviranus .

Cell –
• Cell is the basic structural and functional unit of livings .
• Study of cell is called – cytology .
• Number of cell in human body is - nearly 1014
• Discovery of cell – Robert hooks (in 1665).
• J.E.Purkinje tells that protoplasm is the living part of the cell.
• Leeuwenhoek studied the inside composition of the living cell.
• Discovery of protoplasm was by felix Dujardin .
Cell theory-
• Cell theory is given by Schleiden and Schwann (in 1838-39).
• Types of cell
• 1. Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cell-
2 . Plant cell and animal cell