Organism Biology

This include multiple levels of study. Habitat, tissues, organ systems, Morphology and biological form, live cycle, and behavior are the major subdivisions of organism biology.

   

Habitat

This includes the discussion of where the organism lives. The primary groups are aquatic, boundary, and terrestrial.

Tissues

This also includes body fluids, cell types, and single cell versus multicellular life forms.

Organ systems

Also known as anatomy and physiology, this section includes the major processes and structures of control and coordination, reproduction, locomotion, vital processes, and their organization and structure, down to the level of tissues.

Form

Also known as morphology, this includes the overall size, shape, coloration, and appearance of organisms.

Life cycle

This includes discussion of genetics, embryology, and various processes of development, including death.

Behavior

Behavior includes such things as motion, nutrition, and reproductive behavior. Any response to the environment may be classified as behavior. Even microbes, plants and fungi have behavior, although it is usually slower and not as visible as animal behavior. A tentative classification includes motion, vital behavior such as feeding and nutrition, reproduction and growth, and other behavior.


This subject depends somewhat indirectly on physics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics, and the structure of matter. It also depends somewhat on chemistry including subtances, changes, and chemical systems. There are some connections to astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and planetary astronomy. This depends more directly on earth science, including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory.

 

It depends more directly on molecular biology including inorganic molecules, simple organics, carbohydrate, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. It is also connected to cell biology including cell anatomy, cell behavior, and cell types. Systematics including microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals will give specific examples of these. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography and biohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras will also be appled.

Applications of personal studies including the human body, pyschology, and biography will be useful in these studies. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups will be useful. Culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture can be connected. Institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion can be connected.

Sociology including social structure and change and may be useful. Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City may be connected. Peoples of the world including Asiatic peoples, Western Civilization, African peoples, and American Indian peoples may be helpful. Particular nations such as India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia will be useful in commecting peoples to organism biology. Western civilization including the United States, can be connected. Asiatic peoples including those of China can be connected. American Indian peoples found in the United States can also be considered.

The history of organism biology is fairly old, as dissections of organisms have been carried out through prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times. The systematic and detailed study, however, is largely modern. I hve not yet detailed the 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, or 20th century. Since few organisms have been studied in exhaustive detail, there is much room for improvement in these studies in the future.


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