THE BIOLOGY OF HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS: A REVIEW

Authors

  • EDWARD UDOSEN Department of Biological sciences, Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Bauchi State, Nigeria.
  • UKPAI KALU Department of Biology, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education AIFCE, Imo State, Nigeria.
  • CHINEDU SUNDAY OGBONNA Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario Medical School, Ontario Canada.
  • KEZIAH IBEMENUGA Department of Biological sciences, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu State University COOU Uli Campus, Anambra State, Nigeria.
  • JERXY ACHIMOWICZ Biology and Neuroscience, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • PELLY MAXISOLISE MALEBE Science Initiative Group, Institute of Advanced Science IAS, Princeton area, New Jersey, United States.
  • SAMUEL IWUJI Department of Biomedical Technology, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.
  • LEO NNAMDI OZURUMBA-DWIGHT The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

Keywords:

biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, synthetic biology

Abstract

The history of Biology at its earliest periods cannot be described without mentioning the roles played by Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen and, Theophrastus in ancient Greco-Roman world, and Leonardo DaVinci in Italy among others, who did studies that helped ignite and consequently shape the early periods of the study of Biology as a field of natural science. This underwent progress in growth, developments of new and advanced tools, and methods in its study. It enhanced emergence of the era of seeking to understand life much better from the cellular and sub-cellular levels. Biology has grown over the scores of decades from mare study of organisms in their gross structure and functions. This was accompanied with correlating them with functions that are observed into seeking to understand these organisms at deeper perspectives from their molecules and ultra-structures, such as through emerged fields like Molecular Biology, Metabolomics and Synthetic Biology and Cell Biology)features. It has opened up deeper insights to support better understanding of life features. The resultant effects have been emergence of new fields under Biology, using advanced techniques to study life. These has supported biological investigations with improved drugs, varieties of crops and animals, industrial bio-products like enzymes, hormones, bio-polymers that are more environmentally friendly and more robust ways to study our ecosystem and tackle emerging environmental problems. In this review we present its historical overview, developments are presented to provide an overview for trends in biology over the ages.

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2024-04-10

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UDOSEN, E., KALU, U., OGBONNA, C. S., IBEMENUGA, K., ACHIMOWICZ, J., MALEBE, P. M., IWUJI, S., & OZURUMBA-DWIGHT, L. N. (2024). THE BIOLOGY OF HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS: A REVIEW. Quantum Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 3(1), 39–54. Retrieved from https://qjmhs.com/index.php/qjmhs/article/view/71

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