What is Zoology? Zoology is the study of animal science. It is a branch of biology that studies the life of animals, their organism structure, and their subcellular life unit
What is Zoology? Zoology is the study of animal science. It is a branch of biology that studies the life of animals, their organism structure, and their subcellular life unit. Zoologists study the functioning and the structure of animal bodies, how animals are formed and how their characteristics get passed down from one generation to another.
Zoologists study how animals behave and interact with each other and how their living environments are. They also study the behavioral significance of animals. The application of Zoology can be approached as an applied or basic science. Those who study basic zoology are keen to know about animals without considering any application of the information that is gained. Those who study applied zoology are interested in the application of zoology and how the knowledge gained can help in benefiting humans and animals alike in the field of medicine. Historically, zoology was used to classify and analyze animals.
BRANCHES OF ZOOLOGY-
- Zoography
- Comparative Zoology
- Soil Zoology
- Mammalogy
- Comparative anatomy
- Herpetology
- Animal physiology
- Entomology
- Behavioural Ecology
- Ornithology
- Ethology
- Invertebrate and vertebrate zoology
Aristotle was a great philosopher who gains the credit of devising a system that helps in classifying organisms and recognizing their similarities among the many other diverse organisms. He devised the system in the fourth century BCE where he arranged the various groups of animals according to their habitat and their reproduction patterns.
Earlier Aristotle had divided things into either animals or plants and then continued with its classification. It was only later that the words like zoology, botany, and biology came into existence and segregated the different organisms.
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) was among the greatest philosophers of all time. He was born in Greece and made many contributions in the field of zoology as well as botany.
His contributions to the field of zoology include vast quantities of information about the variety, structure, and behavior of animals; the analysis of the parts of living organisms; and the beginnings of the science of taxonomy. All these contributions made him known as the father of Zoology.
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