study of living things
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Neiffer said he has always been interested in biology, the study of living things.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2014
Network theory Tree and leaf Feb 11th 2010 From The Economist print edition The study of living things may shed light on urban planning.
From Economist ● Feb. 11, 2010
A further step in the development of biological science has been to separate the study of living things into the two sciences of botany and zoology.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
Note that though they called themselves 196physiologists they meant by physiology something very different from the mere physical and chemical study of living things.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
Something of this same sort of revolution was inaugurated in the study of living things by the discovery of cells and protoplasms.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
