Biology's beginnings
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178) and index.

"This first of a four-part MITeen series charts the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when the origins of the virus was discovered by a baffled Dutch biologist who found a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops"--,Provided by publisher.

From the earliest questioning about how life-forms began to the original use of the word virus, Hakim begins to unfold the history of our scientific quest to understand life itself. This book, the first of a four-part MITeen series, charts the evolution of life science. Hakim begins in the Islamic Golden Age, and takes readers up to the late 1800s, when the origins of the virus was discovered by a baffled Dutch biologist who found a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops.