Biology/Related Articles

A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Biology.

Parent topics

• Science

Subtopics

Subdisciplines

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] Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e] Cell Biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. [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]

Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. [e] Marine Biology [r]: Add brief definition or description 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] Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [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]: The principles underlying classification, often in a hierarchy. [e] Virology [r]: The study of viruses, sometimes included in the field of microbiology. [e] Zoology [r]: The scientific study of animals. [e]

History of biology

• natural history
• geography
• ecology
• molecular biology
• evolutionary biology
• Great Chain of Being

Techniques

genetic engineering transformation gel electrophoresis chromatography centrifugation cell culture DNA sequencing DNA microarray green flourescent protein

vector enzyme assay protein purification western blot northern blot Southern blot restriction enzyme polymerase chain reaction two-hybrid screening

The scientific discipline

• List of important publications in biology

Other related topics

General life species Tree of life animals plants fungi protists bacteria archaea prokaryote eukaryote three-domain system angiosperms insects nematodes viruses Classification of man primate mammal vertebrate craniata chordate deuterostome animal The cell Cell wall cell membrane cytoskeleton mitochondrion chloroplast nucleus endoplasmic reticulum Golgi apparatus cell cycle mitosis metabolism cell signaling protein targeting Ecology biomass food chain indicator species extinction habitat species distribution Gaia theory Conservation biodiversity biodiversity hotspot nature reserve edge effect Allee effect corridor fragmentation pollution invasive species in situ - ex situ seedbank environmental economics Evolution natural selection genetic drift sexual selection speciation mutation gene flow

Development tissues fertilization embryogenesis gastrulation neurulation organogenesis differentiation morphogenesis metamorphosis ontogeny Life cycle reproduction ploidy spermatogenesis alternation of generations oogenesis parasitism evolution of sex meiosis DNA replication Biochemistry DNA RNA protein enzyme protein folding carbohydrate lipid glycolysis citric acid cycle electron transport chain oxidative phosphorylation photosynthesis protein structure Genetics Gene genome karyotype transcription translation recombination chromosome Mendelian inheritance phenotype genotype epigenetics splicing mutation genetic fingerprint chromatin classical genetics ecological genetics molecular genetics population genetics quantitative genetics