Origins of Biology, Origins of Research! Most concepts in biology have roots that are well accounted for.

Some others are open to pure moot and dispute. Game to a history of scientific genius coupled w ith quite a few eccentric theories, I believe biology has come a long way today from residing in ampoules to being able to produce functional neurons in laborat ory cultures. The basis of life and research, extrapolated from the very first microbial plaqu es found in the teeth of Leeuwenhoek (yes his teeth, wonder why scientists are m essy?) described in his words as "a little white matter, which is as thick as if 'twere batter" to the deduction of the spiral molecule that haunts every freshm an till they are hauntingly aware of the molecular conundrum that is the DNA. It was 1953 when Science gave birth to cell research and plagiarism, ironically in the same cradle in one of history's most celebrated excogitations so to say. It took the DNAmic duo of Watson-Crick the "Photo 51" from the what could have b een the biggest contribution to life science X-Ray photos of Franklin (hers, lit erally) to affirm their claim of the DNA structure composition. Pretty convenien t eh! To top it off, Franklin's dumb ass luck - dead of cancer in her thirties c ouldn t receive a Nobel because apparently Stockholm has a problem awarding accola des posthumously. Genetics. Dont we all just love this term. Probably one of biology s fanciest ones sought out for by young and budding lab geeks (ask a class of 50 freshmen biolo gists what their chosen area of interest is and be baffled, or not!). Lest they know, it took Mendel over 25000 pea samples, a tawdry 3 citings in next 35 years , his conversion to an abbot (i don t blame him) and a final 20th century what cou ld be termed as a PEAn reconsideration of his work for his research to be finall y extolled. It was soon in the textbooks, in our notes, quite a pioneering chapt er in befuddling and flummoxing generations one after another. Outcome, dominant ly recessive and how!. Sex cells! Well it was FLAW's flawless concept! (no kidding, go ogle it). 20 gen erations of mice were experimented on, around a 1000 tails chopped (these tiny b itches always had it coming, always!). A-bio-genesis! Quite a self explanatory term isnt it. Well Aristotle believed so ! Life generated on its own, rotten logs turned into crocodiles. From a scientif ic point of view i think its safe to say, philosophy got the better of the polym ath. It was only when Louis Pasteured onto greener grounds that we found out tha t the only thing that can grow spontaneously was a disease infected with microbi al pathogens, Germ Theory, period! Evolution, oh the monkey business one's seen become of that concept! Darwin prop osed a theory. Honestly its quite a fascinating one, in theory alright! Thomas H uxley extended it to apes and humans and since then history has seen many a huma n one ape many an ape one. Quite frankly, if humans did share common ancestry wi th the monkey boys it would so explain the etymology of the word ape (to copy, r eally!).