ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY Flashcards
deals with all aspects of structures and functions, heredity development, evolution and distribution of organisms.
ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY
deals with shape or form and external structures of the body of living things viewed as a whole.
MORPHOLOGY
Other name for morphology
surface anatomy
deals with the internal macroscopic or visible external and internal structures of living things revealed by cutting up or dissection of body parts. It includes the dissection of organs and organ systems of the whole plant and animal bodies.
Gross Anatomy/ WHOLE-BODY ANATOMY
deals with structure and functions of tissues that composed organs the
body of living things.
Histology/Tissue biology
deals with the structure, function and evolution of cells ,the basic unit of the body of living things.
Cytology/ Cell Biology
deals with the functions or activities of the parts of the body of living things.
e.g. movement, reproduction/cell division, metabolism, photosynthesis, growth.
PHYSIOLOGY
Physiology is also known as?
FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGY
deals with the development of organisms from fertilized egg (zygote) to
hatching or birth. It deals with embryonic and post embryonic development.
Developmental Biology
deals with the study of embryonic development from
gametogenesis to organogenesis
EMBRYOLOGY
deals with abnormal or defective animal embryonic and
fetal development due to chemical hazards(teratogenic drugs)
and nuclear radiation.
TERATOLOGY
deals with interrelationships of living things to their physical environment.
e.g. food chain, food web, biogeochemical cycles,ecosystem components.
ECOLOGY/ Environmental Biology
deals with the interaction of organisms in
their freshwater environment.
Limnology (Freshwater Ecology)
deals with the interactions of marine
organisms in their saltwater(saline) environment.
Marine Ecology(Saltwater Ecology)
deals with the distribution of living things in the different
continents of the world.
BIOGEOGRAPHY
deals with the
distribution of plants(Flora) on the different regions or
continents of the earth.
Phytogeography (PLANT BIOGEOGRAPHY)
deals with the
distribution of plants(Flora) on the different regions or
continents of the earth.
Phytogeography (PLANT BIOGEOGRAPHY)
deals with the
distribution of animals(Fauna) on the different regions or
continents of the earth. It includes description of Wallace’s
zoogeographic realms namely: Oriental, Palearctic, Nearctic,
Neotropical, Ethiopian and Australian.
Zoogeography(Animal Biogeography)
deals with the identification and distribution of prehistoric organisms as recorded in sedimentary rocks.
PALEONTOLOGY
paleontology is also known as
PaleoBiology
deals with prehistoric or fossil microorganisms.
e.g. radiolarians and
foraminiferans,diatoms (chrysophytes)
Micropaleontology
deals with prehistoric or fossil plants.
e.g. rhyniophytes, zosterophyllophytes, giant tree-ferns and clubmossess.
Paleobotany (plant paleontology/ PaleoPhytology
deals with fossil spores and pollen grains of ancient flowering plants.
Palynology
deals with prehistoric or fossil animals. e.g. trilobites, giant dragonfly, dinosaurs ,saber-toothed cats,giant sloths
Paleozoology (animal paleontology)
deals with the development of the different species of organism from ancestral forms as a result of gene mutation and environmental adaptations.
Evolutionary Biology
(Biological Evolution)
deals with the transmisssion of hereditary or genetic traits and characteristics of organisms from ancestors to descendants or from parents (progenitors) to offsprings(progenies). These characteristic traits are carried by genes or the genetic material in the form of DNA.
Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance,Modification of Mendel’s Basic Laws, Molecular Biology of the Gene.
GENETICS (GENE BIOLOGY)
