Portal:Biology
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Biology is the scientific discipline that studies life processes or characteristics of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, distribution and evolution. The word Biology comes from the Greek word bios meaning "life", and logy which basically means "the study of". Biological creationism is the doctrine or belief that various kinds of living beings were created and so are not the product of a naturalistic process. The creator is usually identified as God. It is, therefore, philosophically opposed to evolutionism. As the theory of evolution is found as an integral part of all secular biology, it is critical that creationists have a thorough understanding of this scientific discipline. Creation biology is the study of biological processes and organisms, while operating under the assumption that God created life on Earth. The discipline is premised on the idea that God created a finite number of discrete created kinds or baramin. While these forms of life have the ability to vary and even undergo speciation, they cannot arise spontaneously from non-life, cannot interbreed outside of their kind, and cannot increase in genetic complexity.
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White blood cell
White blood cells are the type of blood cells that fight infection in the body by seeking-out and destroying disease-causing microorganisms. Also known as leukocytes, the white blood cells are responsible for maintaining the immune system’s response to foreign substances and infection. They play a number of roles in immune response, including antibody production, attacking and destroying cancer cells, and producing substances that kill tumors. They are divided into many different categories on the basis of their functions and appearance.
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Harold Willard Clark (1891-1986) was a Berkeley-trained biologist and a former student of George McCready Price who later replaced him on the faculty of Pacific Union College in 1922. Clark ultimately taught biology at Seventh-Day Adventist colleges for thirty-five years. Clark was a young earth creationist, who published his first book in 1929 (Back to Creationism) in which he urged readers to quit simply opposing evolution and to adopt the new "science of creationism". The term "creationism" subsequently became popularly used by scientific creationists to describe their distinctive interpretation of earth history.
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"The origin of the [genetic] code is perhaps the most perplexing problem in evolutionary biology. The existing translational machinery is at the same time so complex, so universal, and so essential that it is hard to see how it could have come into existences or how life could have existed without it. The discovery of ribozymes has made it easier to imagine an answer to the second of these questions, but the transformation of an 'RNA world' into one in which catalysis is performed by proteins, and nucleic acids specialize in the transmission of information, remains a formidable problem." - Maynard Smith J. & Szathmary E., "The Major Transitions in Evolution," W.H. Freeman: Oxford UK, 1995, p81.[1]
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A
Adaptation,
Adenosine triphosphate,
Agriculture,
Algae,
Allele,
Alligator,
Alternative splicing,
Amino acid,
Amoebidae,
Anaconda,
Anatomy,
Anchisaur,
Antibiotic resistance,
Annelid,
Apoptosis,
Archaea,
Asexual reproduction,
ATP synthase,
B
Bacillus thuringiensis,
Bacteriology,
Bacteriophage,
Baraminology,
Basking Shark,
Bat
Binary fission,
Biological evolution,
Biology,
Bioluminescence,
Biotechnology,
Bird,
Blood clotting,
Botany,
Bottleneck effect,
Bottlenose Dolphin,
Brown recluse spider,
C
Canine
Carnivore,
Cell Biology,
Cell cycle,
Cell division,
Cell membrane,
Cell nucleus,
Cell wall,
Cellular organelle,
Cellular respiration,
Cellulose,
Cephalopod,
Chimpanzee,
Chiton,
Chlorophyll,
Chloroplast,
Chromosomes,
Cilia,
Ciliate,
Cladistics,
Clean animal,
Cloning,
Codon,
Coelacanth,
Complex specified information,
Coral snake,
Cotyledon,
Created kind,
Cryptozoology,
Cuttlefish,
D
Dicotyledon,
Dinosaur,
Dinosaur classification,
DNA,
DNA and Babel,
DNA polymerase,
DNA repair,
DNA replication,
DNA transcription,
Dolphin,
Donkey,
Dove,
Deer,
E
Eagle,
Echidna,
Ecosystem,
Egg,
Electron microscope,
Elk,
Embryo,
Embryology,
Embryophyte,
Emperor penguin,
Endoplasmic reticulum,
Entomology,
Enzyme,
Epiphytes,
Eukaryotes,
Evolution,
Extraterrestrial life,
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Fertilization,
Fetus,
Fire-bellied toad,
Flagellum,
Flamingo,
Flower,
Flowering plant,
Founder effect,
Fungus,
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Gamete,
Gecko,
Gel electrophoresis,
Gene,
Gene duplication,
Gene expression,
Genetic dominance,
Genetic drift,
Genetic engineering,
Genetic recombination,
Genetics,
Genome,
Genotoxicity,
Giant panda,
Glucose,
Golgi apparatus,
Gopher wood,
Gorilla,
Green anaconda,
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Haldane's Dilemma,
Hawk,
Hemoglobin,
Herbivore,
Herpetology,
Hippopotamus,
Homologous chromosomes,
Horse,
Human races,
Hummingbird,
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Iguana,
Indava,
Infectious disease,
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Jaguar,
Jumping spider,
Junk DNA,
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Kangaroo,
King Cobra,
Komodo dragon,
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Life,
Locus,
Lysosome,
M
Macroevolution,
Mamba
Mammals,
Meiosis,
Mendelian inheritance,
Messenger RNA,
Metabolism,
Microbiology,
Microevolution,
Microorganism,
Microscopy,
Microtubules,
Mitochondria,
Mitosis,
Monosaccharide,
Monster,
N
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,
Natural Genetic Engineering,
Natural selection,
Nitrogen fixation,
Not by Chance!,
Nucleotide,
nucleus,
O
Ocean,
Of Pandas and People,
Ornithology,
Ovum,
P
Penicillium,
Phenotype,
Phenotypic plasticity,
Photosynthesis,
Plankton,
Plant,
Pollen,
Polyp,
Predation
Prokaryotes,
Protein,
Proteobacteria,
Protist,
R
RNA,
Red blood cells,
Reproduction,
Reptile,
Ribose,
Ribosome,
S
Seed,
Sexual reproduction,
Speciation,
Sperm,
Spirochaete,
Stem cell,
Symmetry,
T
Taxonomy,
Trait,
Transcription,
Translation,
V
Vacuole,
Vegetative reproduction,
Vertebrates,
Virus,
W
White blood cells,
Z
Zoology ,
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- Write descriptive articles for organisms.
- Write article on issues of bioethics, such as stem cell research, genetic engineering, or abortion.
- Categorize our organism photos into taxonomic Family groupings.
Did you know...
- Rapid mitochondrial DNA mutation rates show 'Mitochondrial Eve' lived within thousands, not hundreds of thousands, of years ago. Creation Ministries International, September 18, 2025.
- 2025 study finds that "human and chimpanzee genomes are approximately 15% different when compared directly and completely" in contrast to false claims that they are 99% identical, reported on by LiveScience, September 7, 2025. Also reported on by Creationist organizations like the Discovery Institute and Answers in Genesis.
- Neanderthals and humans interbred more recently than scientists thought "Two teams using different methods both conclude that humans and Neanderthals had children together starting roughly 50,000 years ago." Nature. December 12, 2024.
- YEC head of the Russian Academy of Science’s Vavilov Institute of General Genetics fired for publicly affirming that humans once lived 900 years. Institute for Creation Research, February 29, 2024.
- Turkish government reported to be replacing Evolution with Creationism in biology school curriculum. DuvaR. English, February 22, 2024.
- Rapid microevolution in weeks documented in fruit flies, defies predictions. University of Pennsylvania, March 17, 2022.
