Much of the earliest recorded history of biology is derived from Assyrian and Babylonian bas-reliefs showing cultivated plants and from carvings depicting …
Botany
Botany, branch of biology that deals with the study of plants … New and more precise information is … new species and the continuing evolution of larger groups. …
Cell theory (biology)
Cell theory, fundamental scientific theory of biology according to which cells are held to be the basic units of all living tissues. …
Taxonomy (biology)
Home Games & Quizzes History … In China a catalog of 365 species of medicinal plants … National Center for Biotechnology Information – PubMed …
Evolution (scientific theory)
evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in …
Plant cell (biology)
Home Games & Quizzes History & Society … They write new … National Center for Biotechnology Information – PubMed Central – What is The Plant …
Morphology (biology)
The term refers to the general aspects of biological form and arrangement of the parts of a plant or an animal. … new aspect of morphology—that involving the …
Biochemistry (science)
biochemistry, study of the chemical substances and processes that occur in plants … new science. As organic and physical … detailed mapping of …
Onion (plant)
Onion, herbaceous biennial plant in the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) grown for its edible bulb. Onions are low in nutrients but are …
Rice (cereal grain)
Rice, edible starchy cereal grain and the plant by which it is produced. Roughly one-half of the world population, including virtually all …
Selective breeding (genetics)
More than 9,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, for example, humans began selectively breeding teosinte plants … Home Science Biology Evolution, Heredity & Genetics …
Corn (plant)
Corn, cereal plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible grain. The domesticated crop originated in the Americas and is one of the …
Protein (biochemistry)
Home Games & Quizzes History … Because the protein content of most plants is low, very large amounts of plant … National Center for Biotechnology Information – …
Cell (biology)
(For detailed discussion of the biochemistry of plant cells, see photosynthesis. For a full treatment of the genetic events in the cell nucleus, …
Fungus (organism)
Home Games & Quizzes History & Society … Parasitic fungi feed on living organisms (usually plants), thus causing disease. … (For information …
Biological weapon
Toxins—poisons that can be weaponized after extraction from snakes, insects, spiders, marine organisms, plants, bacteria, fungi, and animals. …
Genetics
Gene action depends on interaction with the environment. Green plants, for example, have genes containing the information necessary to …
Algae (organism)
The taxonomy of algae is contentious and subject to rapid change as new molecular information is discovered. The study of algae is called …
Carolus Linnaeus (Swedish botanist)
How Botanical Gardens Save Plants with Science … new species. The rules of nomenclature that … National Center for Biotechnology Information – …
Fern (plant)
… new species are still being found in unexplored tropical areas. The ferns constitute an ancient division of vascular plants, some of them as …
Steroid (chemical compound)
This article covers the history, chemistry, biological significance, and basic pharmacology of steroids. For more information about the …
Soybean (plant)
Home Games & Quizzes History … Home Science Biology Life Cycle, Processes & Properties … Among the fungi, spores serve a function analogous to that of seeds in …
Photosynthesis (biology)
In past ages, green plants and small organisms that fed on plants … new plant varieties, also became … information about the photosynthetic …
Spore (biology)
Home Games & Quizzes History … Home Science Biology Life Cycle, Processes & Properties … Among the fungi, spores serve a function analogous to that of seeds in …
Domestication (biology and society)
Domestication, the process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into domestic and cultivated forms according to the …
Angiosperm (plant)
Angiosperm, any of about 300000 species of flowering plants, the largest and most diverse group in the plant kingdom
Permian Period (geochronology)
Terrestrial plants broadly diversified during the Permian Period, and insects evolved rapidly as they followed the plants into new habitats. In
Genetic engineering
Gene editing has a wide array of applications, being used for the genetic modification of crop plants and livestock and of laboratory model …
Flower (plant anatomy)
A flower that lacks stamens is pistillate, or female, while one that lacks pistils is said to be staminate, or male. When the same plant bears …
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (French biologist)
New characters thus acquired by organisms over … Nonetheless, Lamarck stands out in the history of biology … plants that had been previously unknown to Western …
