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biology

Scientific study of living things, especially their structure, function, growth, evolution, and distribution

Conceptacademic discipline branch of science academic majorQ420

Also known as bio · biological science · biological sciences · life science · life sciences · study of life

Instance of: academic discipline
, branch of science
, academic major
Subclass of: natural science
, life sciences

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Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of life. Central to biology are five fundamental themes: the cell as the basic unit of life, genes and heredity as the basis of inheritance, evolution as the driver of biological diversity, energy transformation for sustaining life processes, and homeostasis, the maintenance of internal stability.

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AIDb. (2026). biology (Q420). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/biology-Q420