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the only science where the subjects keep trying to eat each other
means The scientific study of living things — how they grow, function, reproduce, evolve, and interact.
from From the Greek 'bios' (life) plus '-logia' (study of), making it literally 'the study of life.' Though the Greek roots are ancient, the word itself is a fairly modern stitch-together — it surfaced as a coinage around the turn of the 19th century, when naturalists wanted one tidy umbrella for everything that breathes, wriggles, photosynthesizes, or oozes. 'Bios' is a busy little root, hiding in 'biography,' 'antibiotic,' and 'symbiosis' too.
- cell count
- You host more bacteria than human cells
- shared code
- You share half your DNA with bananas
- atom recycling
- Your body swaps most atoms every few years
- hidden power
- Mitochondria carry their own ancient bacterial DNA
- scale
- Earth holds an estimated trillion species
human genome project — international collaboration that sequenced all 3 billion base pairs of human dna, completed 2003
crispr gene editing — jennifer doudna and emmanuelle charpentier's 2020 nobel prize-winning technology for precise dna modification
discovery of dna structure — watson, crick, and franklin's 1953 identification of dna's double helix in nature