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Parent topics
Subtopics
Subdisciplines
- Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). [e]
- Astrobiology [r]: The study of life in the universe. [e]
- Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the range of life forms in a given ecosystem. [e]
- Biogeography [r]: The study of patterns of species distribution and the processes that result in such patterns. [e]
- Bioinformatics [r]: The study of (usually molecular) biological systems by computational means. [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Cell biology [r]: The study of the components of biological cells and their interactions. [e]
- Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
- Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. [e]
- Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
- Endocrinology [r]: Generically, the study of glands and the hormonal regulation of physiology; also the subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with diseases of the endocrine system [e]
- Ethology [r]: The scientific study of animal behavior. [e]
- Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- History of biology [r]: The study of the development of knowledge and methodology in the study of life. [e]
- Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. [e]
- Marine biology [r]: The study of life in the seas and oceans. [e]
- Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). [e]
- Molecular biology [r]: The study of molecular interactions within cells. [e]
- Morphology [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Morphology (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. [e]
- Palaeontology [r]: The study of extinct life forms, particularly fossils. [e]
- Population biology [r]: The study of life at the species level. [e]
- Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
- Synthetic biology [r]: The study of artificial life forms. [e]
- Systematics [r]: The study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and how they relate via evolution. [e]
- Systems biology [r]: The study of biological systems as a whole. [e]
- Taxonomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theoretical biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zoology [r]: Add brief definition or description
History of biology
- Natural history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
- Molecular biology [r]: The study of molecular interactions within cells. [e]
- Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. [e]
- Great Chain of Being [r]: Add brief definition or description
Techniques
- Cell culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centrifugation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Computational Morphometry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dielectrophoresis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DNA sequencing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DNA microarray [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electrorotation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Enzyme assay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gel electrophoresis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Green fluorescent protein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Northern blot [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Optical Tweezers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Patch clamp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Polymerase chain reaction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein purification [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Restriction enzyme [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scanning electron microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Southern blot [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transformation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transmission electron microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Two-hybrid screening [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UV Laser ablation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vector [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Western blot [r]: Add brief definition or description
The scientific discipline
General
Tree of life
- Tree of life [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phylogeny [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Animal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fungi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Archaea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prokaryote [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eukaryote [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Three-domain system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Angiosperm [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Insect [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nematode [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Classification of man
- Primate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mammal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vertebrate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Craniata [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chordate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deuterostome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Animal [r]: Add brief definition or description
The cell
- Cell wall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell membrane [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cytoskeleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mitochondrion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chloroplast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nucleus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Endoplasmic reticulum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Golgi apparatus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mitosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell signaling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein targeting [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ecology
- Biomass [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Food chain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indicator species [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extinction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Habitat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Species distribution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaia theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
Conservation
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the range of life forms in a given ecosystem. [e]
- Biodiversity hotspot [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nature reserve [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edge effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allee effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Corridor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fragmentation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pollution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Invasive species [r]: Add brief definition or description
- In situ - ex situ [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Seedbank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Environmental economics [r]: Add brief definition or description
Evolution
- Natural selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic drift [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sexual selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Speciation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mutation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gene flow [r]: Add brief definition or description
Development
- Tissues [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fertilization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Embryogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gastrulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neurulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Organogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Differentiation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Morphogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metamorphosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ontogeny [r]: Add brief definition or description
Life cycle
- Reproduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ploidy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spermatogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alternation of generations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Parasitism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolution of sex [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Meiosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DNA replication [r]: Add brief definition or description
Biochemistry
- DNA [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RNA [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Enzyme [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein folding [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carbohydrate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lipid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Glycolysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Citric acid cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electron transport chain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oxidative phosphorylation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Photosynthesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein structure [r]: Add brief definition or description
Genetics
- Gene [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karyotype [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transcription [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Translation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Recombination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chromosome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mendelian inheritance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phenotype [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genotype [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epigenetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Splicing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mutation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic fingerprint [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Classical genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ecological genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Population genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description