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botany

(Encyclopedia) botany, science devoted to the study of plants. Botany, microbiology, and zoology together compose the science of biology. Humanity's earliest concern with plants was with their…

biology

(Encyclopedia) biology, the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology, the study of animal life, and botany, the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these…

zoology

(Encyclopedia) zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical…

Genetics & Evolution

Cloning Milestones Cloning: Facts and Fallacies Should We Play God?  Clones Aren't Exact Copies The Cloning Quandary Cloning Facts and Fallacies Oldest Human Remains in North America Found…

Brewer's: Quassia

An American plant, or rather genus of plants, named after Quassi, a negro. “Linnaeus applied this name to a tree of Surinam in honour of a negro, Quassi, who employed its bark as a remedy…

Notable Scientists: Life Sciences

  Biologists, botanists, geneticists, medical scientists, microbiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and zoologists       Related Links Cloning: Facts and Fallacies…

honeysuckle

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens honeysuckle, common name for some members of the Caprifoliaceae, a family comprised mostly of vines and shrubs of the Northern…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Hell

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Devil Sin Hell Hell is a city much like London— A populous and a smoky city; There are all sorts of people undone, And there is little or no fun done; Small…