Loading...The 4 great ideas of biology
My biology advisor showed me how biology could be broken down into smaller parts easily:
The four great ideas of biology are:
– the cell as the basic structural and functional unit of life
– the gene as the mechanism of heredity
– evolution by natural selection
– life is chemistry
Of course, it was my chemistry advisor who explained how all of chemistry could be broken down into physics…
I found this paper on these four great ideas of biology. It is a great read!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4952585/
Check out this video, which summarises a few more big ideas of biology.