Biology Facts

Increase your biology knowledge with this great collection of interesting biology facts. Learn about cells, DNA, ecology, natural selection, bacteria, viruses, yeast, evolution, cloning and much more.

• People that study biology are known as biologists.

• Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth. Reaching over 2000 kilometres (1240 miles) in length.

• The first person to see a live cell with a microscope was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, in 1674.

• Ecology is the study of ecosystems and how organisms interact with their environment.

• While some bacteria can make you sick, others have positive benefits such as helping you digest food or even make yoghurt.

• Moulds, yeasts and mushrooms are types of fungus.

• The common cold is a type of virus.

• Viruses can be treated with antiviral drugs.

• Bacteria are extremely small and are made up of just one cell.

• Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics.

• Animals that eat plants as their primary food source are known as herbivores.

• Endangered species are those that are in danger of being completely wiped out, they include blue whales, tigers and pandas. Without proteuction these species may eventually become extinct.

• Born on July 5th 1996, Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.

• When the DNA of an organism changes and results in a new trait (characteristic) it is known as mutation.

• French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur was well known for inventing a process to stop various foods and liquids making people sick. Called Pasteurization, it reduces the amount of microorganisms that could lead to disease without having a noticeable effect on taste and quality in a way which methods such as sterilization might.

• Charles Darwin developed the idea of natural selection, sometimes called survival of the fittest. It is a process that involves living things with favorable traits being more likely to reproduce, passing on their favorable traits to future generations. Interesting Facts About BiologyAmazing, Fun & Interesting Facts About Biology SponsoredA branch of science that can logically explain our every action and simplify the various complicated aspects of life in the form of truths. Its sincere study can get you a well respected job but its details and practical application can make you faint as well as throw up on the body that you were examining.  Biology lessons have always been popular for a means of high school boys to creep out the girls and thus gain their undivided attention. But here are a few amazing & very interesting facts about biology that your teacher forgot to tell you about.Interesting Facts About Biology

#1: For a Cup of CoffeePeople who can’t begin their days without a cup of coffee, they would have to yell for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, and thus produce enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee when the energy resources of the world go extinct.

#2: A Bomb in MakingMaking of an atomic bomb isn’t as easy as it seems. If one wishes to make a natural atomic bomb then he shall have to fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, so as to produce enough gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb. When the world energy resources go extinct superpowers are going to have a tough time threatening each other.

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#4: A Deadly Weight Loss PlanHead banging against a wall uses 150 calories an hour, but how does it matter because death would have picked you up by then with insanity laughing at your stupidity.

#5: Mutual FearOn a regular basis people are more scared of spiders than death, without realizing that a spider runs to shelter every time it touches a human and cleans itself off the germs. 

#6: A True InspirationAn ant is capable of lifting 50 times its own weight and pulling 30 times its own weight.

#7: Blessing in DisguiseElephants are the only ones cursed with the inability of jumping. We must thank god for that or we would have been having innumerable earthquakes.

#8: A Brainless FishLucky are starfishes that don’t have brains or like humans they would have been capable of thinking of problems that don’t even exist in the first place and giving themselves a headache.

#9: Respectable AppendixThe appendix once declared to be useless has now been found to be useful to the bacteria that help our digestive system functioning. It’s used to get some respite from the tension of the hysterical activity of the gut.

#10: The Explained BloodOur blood is red colored because the iron in the blood is bound in a ring of atoms in hemoglobin called porphyrin and it’s the shape of this structure that produces the color. The redness of your hemoglobin depends on whether there is oxygen bounded to it. With the presence of oxygen, the shape of the porphyrin is changed, giving the red blood cells a more vivid shade.