Wöhler proved in 1828 that there was nothing special with organic molecules by synthesising urea. I guess you could view molecular formation as a complex syste

Wöhler proved in 1828 that there was nothing special with organic molecules by synthesising urea. I guess you could view molecular formation as a complex system involving atoms and atoms as a complex system involving quarks. That would define chemistry and particle physics as the study of said complex systems which makes sense to me. Still at that level that’s not generally viewed as the study of organisms. What we view as biology, the study of the mechanisms of life, really starts at the molecular level. If you go lower, things stop being specific enough.