pairs of sciences:
4. Distinguish between the following pairs of sci
(a) Zoology and Entomology
(b) Genetics and Eugenics
(c) Phycology and Mycology
(d) Space Biology and Exobiology
(e) Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
(f) Embryology and Immunology
(g) Ichthyology and Pisciculture
Answers
Answer:
(a) The zoology is the part of biology. which is related to the animal kingdom, including the structure embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
Entomology is the scientific study of insects.
(b) "Genetic" is an adjective that simply refers to genes or heredity.
Eugenics refers to ways to improve human genes, sometimes only for children, or sometimes for the human race as a whole
(c) Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicine and food as well as their dangers, such as toxicity or infection.
Phycology is the scientific study of algae.
(d) Space Biology is the study of survival problems of living things in outer space. Exobiology is the study of life elsewhere in the universe.
(e) Bioinformatics is a combination of biology and computer science while biotechnology is a broad scientific discipline where biological sciences combined with engineering
(f) Embryology
It is a field of biology that deals with the embryo development in animals and plants.
Immunology
It is a science dealing with the process and causative of immunity (defend against/resist diseases).
(g) ichthyology deals with study of fish and rearing of fish in artifical and natural water bodies.
pisciculture deals with breeding rearing and transplantation of fish by artifical means.