7/31/2019 Biology Blabber

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Origins of Biology, Origins of Research!

Most concepts in biology have roots that are well accounted for. Some others areopen to pure moot and dispute. Game to a history of scientific genius coupled with quite a few eccentric theories, I believe biology has come a long way todayfrom residing in ampoules to being able to produce functional neurons in laboratory cultures.

The basis of life and research, extrapolated from the very first microbial plaques found in the teeth of Leeuwenhoek (yes his teeth, wonder why scientists are messy?) described in his words as "a little white matter, which is as thick as if'twere batter" to the deduction of the spiral molecule that haunts every freshman till they are hauntingly aware of the molecular conundrum that is the DNA.

It was 1953 when Science gave birth to cell research and plagiarism, ironicallyin the same cradle in one of history's most celebrated excogitations so to say.It took the DNAmic duo of Watson-Crick the "Photo 51" from the what could have been the biggest contribution to life science X-Ray photos of Franklin (hers, literally) to affirm their claim of the DNA structure composition. Pretty convenient eh! To top it off, Franklin's dumb ass luck - dead of cancer in her thirties couldnt receive a Nobel because apparently Stockholm has a problem awarding accolades posthumously.

Genetics. Dont we all just love this term. Probably one of biologys fanciest ones

sought out for by young and budding lab geeks (ask a class of 50 freshmen biologists what their chosen area of interest is and be baffled, or not!). Lest theyknow, it took Mendel over 25000 pea samples, a tawdry 3 citings in next 35 years, his conversion to an abbot (i dont blame him) and a final 20th century what could be termed as a PEAn reconsideration of his work for his research to be finally extolled. It was soon in the textbooks, in our notes, quite a pioneering chapter in befuddling and flummoxing generations one after another. Outcome, dominantly recessive and how!.

Sex cells! Well it was FLAW's flawless concept! (no kidding, go ogle it). 20 generations of mice were experimented on, around a 1000 tails chopped (these tiny bitches always had it coming, always!).

A-bio-genesis! Quite a self explanatory term isnt it. Well Aristotle believed so! Life generated on its own, rotten logs turned into crocodiles. From a scientific point of view i think its safe to say, philosophy got the better of the polymath. It was only when Louis Pasteured onto greener grounds that we found out that the only thing that can grow spontaneously was a disease infected with microbial pathogens, Germ Theory, period!

Evolution, oh the monkey business one's seen become of that concept! Darwin proposed a theory. Honestly its quite a fascinating one, in theory alright! Thomas Huxley extended it to apes and humans and since then history has seen many a human one ape many an ape one. Quite frankly, if humans did share common ancestry with the monkey boys it would so explain the etymology of the word ape (to copy, really!).