The Department of Life Sciences was established since the founding of the College of Sciences in 1949, which was then known as the College of Arts and Sciences. The college at that time included five scientific departments in the beginning, namely the departments of (animals, plants, chemistry, physics, and mathematics). Its location was in Adhamiya. The College of Arts and Sciences continued as one college until the year 1953, when the college was separated. Sciences and became an independent college, as well as the College of Arts. The College of Science gradually expanded and established other departments until today it includes twelve departments and scientific units in which preliminary and graduate studies are taught and scientific research is conducted. It has become the distinguished scientific college in Iraq. The departments of zoology, microbiology, plants, and microbiology were the nucleus of the current Department of Life Sciences in the College. the sciences. The two departments (Department of Animals and Plants) were united in 1969 under the name of the Department of Life Sciences, and at that time included the largest part of the college’s premise. In the beginning, teaching was in the English language. All the faculty members were graduates of foreign countries, in addition to Arab and foreign teachers who were fluent in English. They were able to continue teaching, discussing, and writing research in English. After the two departments were unified into the Department of Life Sciences, the process of abolishing the College of Education at the University of Baghdad followed, so the life students joined their colleagues in the College of Science, so the specializations were integrated and the department took its path towards development, expansion, and studies. The Arabization Committee decided that the initial and then graduate studies should be in Arabic, and the movement of writing and translating curricula into Arabic was activated. The two studies. The first registration for a master’s degree in zoology was at the beginning of the academic year 1966-1967, and postgraduate studies grew first for the master’s and then for the doctorate in the Department of Life Sciences in the year 1970-1971 in line with the needs of the scientific renaissance that Iraq witnessed. The study curricula in the Life Sciences Department have changed and developed. At first, the animal and plant specializations were separate, and when the two departments merged into one department, Life Sciences, the study in it was unified for the first two years, and students in the third and fourth years specialized in either animals, plants, or microbiology. Later, these specializations were canceled in undergraduate studies, and students graduated with a degree in life sciences at that time.