Biology/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Science

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]: 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: Add brief definition or description
•  Geography: Add brief definition or description
•  Ecology: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. ^[e]
• Molecular biology: The study of molecular interactions within cells. ^[e]
•  Evolutionary biology: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. ^[e]
• Great Chain of Being: Add brief definition or description

Techniques

• Cell culture: Add brief definition or description
• Centrifugation: Add brief definition or description
•  Chromatography: Add brief definition or description
• Computational Morphometry: Add brief definition or description
• Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy: Add brief definition or description
• Dielectrophoresis: Add brief definition or description
•  DNA sequencing: Add brief definition or description
•  DNA microarray: Add brief definition or description
•  Electrorotation: Add brief definition or description
• Enzyme assay: Add brief definition or description
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Add brief definition or description
• Gel electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description
•  Genetic engineering: Add brief definition or description
• Green fluorescent protein: Add brief definition or description
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Add brief definition or description
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Add brief definition or description
• Northern blot: Add brief definition or description
• Optical Tweezers: Add brief definition or description
•  Patch clamp: Add brief definition or description
•  Polymerase chain reaction: Add brief definition or description
• Protein purification: Add brief definition or description
•  Restriction enzyme: Add brief definition or description
• Scanning electron microscopy: Add brief definition or description
•  Southern blot: Add brief definition or description
• Transformation (biology): Add brief definition or description
• Transmission electron microscopy: Add brief definition or description
• Two-hybrid screening: Add brief definition or description
• UV Laser ablation: Add brief definition or description
• Vector (biology): Add brief definition or description
•  Western blot: Add brief definition or description

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