Truly modern molecular biology emerged with the uncovering of the structure of DNA in the 1960s and concurrent advances in biochemistry and genetics. Molecular biology is one of three primary molecular-scale biological sciences, the others being biochemistry and genetics.
1 Students should know the parts and functions of the circulatory and respiratory systems and how they work together for respiration. 2  Students should also understand what homeostasis is and that all living things must be able to maintain homeostasis.
Blood and Oxygen - How It Works. You breathe air in through your nose and mouth. It makes its way into your lungs and dissolves in the water lining of the alveoli. Oxygen then clings to red blood cells as they pass through the alveolar capillaries - now the oxygen is in the blood. Red blood cells.