Biopsy

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~ BIO~        prefix to denote LIFE from 
              gr BIOS = LIFE 
~ BIOGENESIS  id+ GENESIS OF LIFE 
              gr GENESIS    = ORIGIN from
                 GIGNESTHAI   TO BECOME
~ BIOLOGY     id+ | STUDY OF LIFE AND THE LIVING |
              the scope of BIOLOGY includes HUMANISM 
              CONSIDER THAT ANY LIVING ORGANISM MAY BE
              ONLY THE TEMPORARY CARRIER or VESSEL OF
              SOME OF THE GENES FROM THE UNIVERSAL GENE POOL
              hx> ARISTOTLE [#] IS CALLED THE FATHER OF BIOLOGY
                  AND IN THIS RESPECT HIS CARDINAL WORK IS
              " ON THE NATURE OF ANIMALS "
              GALEN [#] CONTRIBUTED TO THE FIELD OF MEDICINE AND
              INTRODUCED MANY GREEK TERMS INTO LATIN
              LINNAEUS [#]  LINNEUS or CARL von LINEE WROTE
              " SYSTEMA NATURAE "  A CLASSIFICATION SCHEMA
              BASED ON A NOMENCLATURE FROM CLASSIC
              GREEK AND LATIN BUT THE CURRENT SUBSTANTIAL IGNORANCE
              OF CLASSIC LANGUAGES HAS BECOME A GROWING STUMBLING
              BLOCK FOR STUDENTS OF BIOLOGY  for more and for some
              ROOTS OF GREEK AND LATIN TERMS IN BIOLOGY
              please see> CLASSIFICATION
              lit+ " LIFE IS A CONTINUUM "  also
                   " NOTHING IN BIOLOGY MAKES SENSE EXCEPT
                     IN THE LIGHT OF EVOLUTION"
                     attr to T DOBZHANSKY [#] who was
              A GREAT INTELLECT FROM KIEV now KYIV in UKRAINE and later
              A LEADER OF GENETICS IN THE USA AND PIONEER IN
              GENETIC STUDIES OF BEHAVIOR AND INTELLIGENCE
              biol> BIOLOGIC DIVERSITY UNDERSCORES THE ESSENCE OF
                    LIVING ORGANISMS EXPRESSED IN THE
              FLUX and FLEXIBILITY OF LIFE IN A BROADEST SENSE
              WHILE EACH SPECIES REPRESENTS A SUBSET OF A GENE POOL
              AS THE NUMBER OF SPECIES ARE DIMINISHED BY THE HUMAN
              SPECIES THE OVERALL GENE POOL SHRINKS FOREVER
              A DISASTROUS IMPOVERISHMENT SINCE HUMANS ARE JUST
              LEARNING ABOUT GENE TRANSFER or TRANSPLANT TECHNOLOGY
              AND BECAUSE EACH GENE IN THE GENETIC POOL IS IMPLICITLY
              A SURVIVOR OF MANY ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT TOOK
              PLACE ACROSS MILLENNIA
~ BIOPHILIA   a new term coined to denote the
              EMOTIONAL ESTHETIC AFFINITY OF
              HUMANS TOWARD NATURE
              as in PICTURES OF NATURAL SCENES USED FOR DECORATION
              HOUSE PLANTS  FLOWERS  also
              BACKPACKING  FISHING  BIRDWATCHING
              PREMIUM COST OF LAND WITH A  " VIEW "
              sug> IDIOSYNCRACY
~ BIOPSY      lat OPSIS = LOOK
              id+ | A LOOK AT LIFE THROUGH A SMALL SPOT |
              med> EXAMINATION OF A SAMPLE OF A TISSUE
~ BIOS        lat BIOS = LIFE  as in BIOSPHERE