A young boy skips a stone across a still pond, and a startled frog jumps into the water. Physics studies nature in the arc of the stone, the rippling of the water, the sound of the splash, and the surprising motions of the atoms and molecules within the stone and the water of the pond. Biology, on the other hand, studies the boy and the frog—their cells, nerves, muscles, and senses—which are very different from the dead mass of the stone and the still water of the pond. Despite their... więcej

Magill’s Medical Guide (Online Edition), 2023. 5p.