In science, biology is an obsolete term for the study of that which is "alive", derived from the Greek prefix -bio, meaning "life". In the modern view, however, animated matter, otherwise known as "biological matter", in obsolete terminology, is atomic matter, and atoms are not alive, nor are molecules, animate molecules, or animated molecules with atomic turnover rate, otherwise known as metabolism and growth. [1]

The goal of what was called the so-called subject of "biology", in olden-days terminology, according to the 1966 views of English molecular biologist Francis Crick, is reductionism to a purely atomic physical chemistry description of behavior: [2]

“The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.”

Upgrade terminology
The suggested replacement terminology for the now defunct term biology is "animateology", the study of animate matter (or animate molecules); which is an Hmolpedia coined term, modeled on:

(a) Belgian-born English thermodynamicist Alfred Ubbelohde 1954 definition that “animate matter [is] termed ‘life’ for short.”
(b) Swedish physical chemist Sture Nordholm 1997 use of "animate thermodynamics" as the study of the thermodynamics of human activity and behavior.

In this sense, animateology would comprise the study of animate thermodynamics, animate chemistry, and or animate physics applied to the study of animated structures, generally super-cellular in size, or thereabouts.

Obsolete definitions
A 2005 definition of biology is the study of living organisms, which includes their structure, gross and microscopical, functioning, origin and evolution, classification, interrelationships, and distribution. [3]

Thermodynamics
The subject of the study of the internal bodily thermodynamic aspects of biology is called biochemical thermodynamics. [4]

Chemistry
In a cultural sense, there is said to exist a certain “biology of love”, that has recently been described by a unified theory of psychology and brain chemistry. [5]

References
1. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One) (life: difficulties on term, pgs. 130-31). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
(b) Brooks, Michael. (2008). 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: the Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (ch. 5: “Life: Are You More Than Just a Bag of Chemicals”, pgs. 69-82). Double Day.
(c) Thims, Libb. (2009). “Letter: Life a Defunct Scientific Theory”, Journal of Human Thermodynamics, Vol. 5, pgs. 20-21.
2. Crick, Francis. (1966). Of Molecules and Men (abs). University of Washington Press.
3. Daintith, John. (2005). Oxford Dictionary of Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
4. (a) Biochemical thermodynamics – 1994 IUBMB-IUPAC Recommendations for Nomenclature.
(b) Alberty, Robert A. (2006). Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica (Methods of Biochemical Analysis), Wiley-Interscience.
5. Janov, Arthur. (2000). The Biology of Love. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.