General Biology

Dr. NGUYEN THI DONG PHUONG

Aug-2019
 Biology What does it mean?

Is it important or not?

Nearly 190 years ago

Charles Darwin

To discover about
the nature of life

To understand about
Biology
a replica of H.M.S. Beagle ship (1)
 Bio = life

Biology from the Greek

Logos =
knowledge

the science of life

Biology is the science of Living Things

Biology Life Science

 History of biology

Biology (Antiquity, The Modern biology

Medieval and Renaissance Periods)

Aristotle Darwin
http://www.liveyourmagic.com/2014/02/aristotle-the-purpose-of-life/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/
 Biology (Antiquity, The Medieval and Renaissance Periods)
Antiquity period

The science of biology was invented by Aristotle (384–322 BC)

His research on animals produced outstanding results

“no one had touched such subject before”

Aristotle
http://www.liveyourmagic.com/2014/02/aristotle-the-
purpose-of-life/
The Medieval and Renaissance Periods

In 1275, Guglielmo da Saliceto recommended

autopsies for forensic reasons

Not only Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), but all the great artists of the age practiced
dissection

New herbals appeared slightly earlier than new books on zoology

The first botanical garden was established in Pisa in 1543

Modern biology
evolutionary Genetic
theory analysis

The two most dominant theories of 20th

Darwin century biology Mendel
https://www.independent.co.uk/new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt1RFnWNzk
s/science/

De Vries’ mutation theory

Morgan with fly room to research on chromosomes structure

The modern evolutionary synthesis

Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life?

Molecular biology The Human Genome Project

Applications of biology

D I S C U S S I O N !!!
 Summary of Chapter 1

➢ Biology studies about living systems

➢ Life does not easy to have a simple definition

➢ Living systems share common properties

➢ Living systems can be organized hierarchically