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 "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
– Lyall Watson

Biology is a technology in Civilization V.

Game Info[]

A very important science, Biology deals with living organisms, their characteristics, and their use in our society. Thanks to it, the value of Oil Oil is revealed and great medical advancements become possible. They're represented by the Hospital, a late game Food Food-boosting building.

Civilopedia entry[]

Biology is the study of living organisms. It's a wide field, ranging from the study of the largest whale to the smallest bacterium. Much of pre-nineteenth century biology was concerned with discovering and categorizing all of the plants, insects and animals in existence on the Earth. As the science advanced and the equipment improved, scientists began to dig into the building blocks of biology - cells, and later, genes and DNA. Today, much is known about the biology of all living organisms on the planet. Biologists have become so successful at manipulating life that the science has moved into areas that only a few years ago would have been considered science fiction. Sheep have been cloned, and sooner or later perhaps so will be people. Nanobiology is a real field of study. Specific genes can be activated for selective breeding. If progress continues it's possible to foresee a time in the not too distant future when most diseases have been conquered, bionic body parts are common and human lifespan has increased by decades.

See also[]

Civilization V Technologies [edit]
Ancient Agriculture Animal Husbandry Archery Bronze Working Calendar Masonry Mining Pottery Sailing The Wheel Trapping Writing
Classical Construction Currency Drama and Poetry Engineering Horseback Riding Iron Working Mathematics Optics Philosophy
Medieval Chivalry Civil Service Compass Education Guilds Machinery Metal Casting Physics Steel Theology
Renaissance Acoustics Architecture Astronomy Banking Chemistry Economics Gunpowder Metallurgy Navigation Printing Press
Industrial Archaeology Biology Dynamite Electricity Fertilizer Industrialization Military Science Rifling Scientific Theory Steam Power Telegraph1
Modern Ballistics Combustion Electronics Flight Mass Media1 Plastics Radio Railroad Refrigeration Replaceable Parts
Atomic2 Atomic Theory Combined Arms Computers Ecology Nuclear Fission Penicillin Radar Rocketry
Information2 Advanced Ballistics Future Tech Globalization Lasers Mobile Tactics Nanotechnology Nuclear Fusion Particle Physics Robotics Satellites Stealth Telecommunications The Internet
Сut Calculus3 Patronage3 Publishing3
1 Vanilla only 2 Atomic and Information eras are Future Era in Vanilla 3 Сut from the game
Added in the Gods & Kings expansion pack.
Added in the Brave New World expansion pack.