Biotech's Dictionary of Zoology/edited by Dinesh Arora. Delhi,
Biotech, 2004, 312 p., $28. ISBN 81-7622-124-4.
Biotech's Dictionary of Zoology/edited by Dinesh Arora. Delhi,
Biotech, 2004, 312 p., $28. ISBN 81-7622-124-4.
"Zoology, or the study of animal species, is a science that has created a large, specialist vocabulary. Taxonomy, or science of naming species, involves thousands of names. Cytology, or the study of cells, involves hundreds of words for the organelles of the cell. The physiology and anatomy of human beings and animals needs the creation of many more words. The chemical and bio-chemical reactions involved in digestion, respiration, growth, hormone formation, etc. need hundreds of complex terms.
It is apparent that zoology cannot be studied without a good dictionary to guide the student when the going gets tough.
Here is a dictionary that fulfills this need. It not only covers terms used in taxonomy, cytology and biochemistry, but it also covers the new grounds of ecology of environmentalism. Definitions are detailed and the reader can read the dictionary as a text to increase his general knowledge of zoology."