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Physiology (/ ˌ f ɪ z i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis) 'nature, origin' and -λογία () 'study of') [1] is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
Origin of life.Exactly how, where, and when did life on Earth originate? Which, if any, of the many hypotheses is correct? What were the metabolic pathways used by the earliest life forms?
Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology .
Garland is a former Topic Editor for Comprehensive Physiology, [4] and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Morphology, [5] The American Naturalist, and Evolution. [6] He was an associate director for the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution , [ 7 ] a University of California Multicampus Research Program.
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to physiology: . Physiology – scientific study of the normal function in living systems. [1] A branch of biology, its focus is in how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system.
Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology is a textbook in Physiology originally written by William Francis Ganong. [1] The first edition was published in 1963, [ 2 ] and the latest, 26th, edition was published in 2019, more than fifty years later than the first. [ 3 ]
Cell physiology is the biological study of the activities that take place in a cell to keep it alive. The term physiology refers to normal functions in a living organism . [ 1 ] Animal cells , plant cells and microorganism cells show similarities in their functions even though they vary in structure.