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Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. It is concerned with the characteristics, classification, and behaviors of organisms, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the environment. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (biological phenomena) over a wide range of scales, from biochemistry to ecology. All concepts in biology are subject to the same laws that other branches of science obey, such as the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass.
At the organism level, biology has explained phenomena such as birth, growth, aging, death and decay of living organisms, similarities between offspring and their parents (heredity) and flowering of plants which have puzzled humanity throughout history. Other phenomena, such as lactation, metamorphosis, egg-hatching, healing, and tropism have been addressed. On a wider scale of time and space, biologists have studied domestication of animals and plants, the wide variety of living organisms (biodiversity), changes in living organisms over time (evolution), extinction, speciation, social behaviour among animals, etc.
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Integrative Biology - Comprehensive source of information about the school.
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Department of Entomology - Information about the department, graduate, outreach programs, and entomology resources.
Meta Description: [ The official home page for the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois. This site contains information on graduate studies in entomology, the Department of Entomology, entomology outreach programs, and world wide web entomology resources. ]
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Molecular Plant Physiology Graduate Program - Describes the interdepartmental graduate program in physiological and molecular plant biology.
Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Illinois - Information about the interdisciplinary graduate program coordinated between the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; Engineering, and Veterinary Medicine.
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