Molecular Biology

We all know that biology is the study of life and its living organisms, which includes their function, growth, structure, evolution, origin, distribution, and taxonomy. We also know that biology is a natural science, one that is essential to our existence and to our understanding of ourselves as organisms and the organisms around us. In our basic understanding we learned in school that the fundamental statements of biology state the following: new species and their inherited traits are the product of evolution, that genes are the basic unit of heredity, that an organism will regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable and constant condition, that cells are the basic unit of life, and that living organisms consume and transform energy. Biology has been around since 1800 when the term was first coined in its modern sense, but has continued to evolve ever since. It developed not only in its own sense but also into other subcategories and fields. One such field is molecular biology.
Molecular biology is a branch or field of biology that looks at the molecular makeup of life, or basically the study of biology on a molecular level. The phrase molecular biology was first used in the late 1930s, although the branch of biology was said to have been discovered some years earlier to that. There has been colossal growth in this field since its birth and continued growth today. It provides scientists with the ability to view the human body a lot closer than they had originally before and to gain a better understanding of it. In turn, knowing how the body works, we know how to treat it when it has a break down and we can fix it right away rather than study the problem and let it worsen. During the sixties, molecular biology was responsible for noting the structure of DNA. Later, it proved to find some significant advances in the world of genetics and biochemistry. The most common area of molecular biology that is discussed today is of course cloning. With expression cloning scientists were able to attach specific coding of DNA into different animals and plants to transfer the components of that DNA. This has opened up new doors for scientists in the field, as to what can be achieved by such a task. The study of DNA has increased vastly and new discoveries have been made about the genetic makeup of animals and humans alike. With this knowledge scientists can not only learn new things about our bodies and makeup but also approach things differently and perhaps complete tasks they weren’t able to before. Molecular biology has really taken off over the last half of century and will make a deep impact on our future. Who knows if with time we will be able to do the impossible and clone a human, an idea that seemed light years away in the impossible just 20 years ago. Molecular biology has come along way as a field of biology and has made a large enough impact to become one of its main fields, the developments that will come out of it will continue to show on a large scale.