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Parent topics

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation ^[e]

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 (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neuroscience [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Palaeontology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Population biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Physiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Synthetic biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Systematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Systems biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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

Other related topics

General

• Life [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Species [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Biological system [r]: Add brief definition or description

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 (organism) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fungus [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