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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Biology.
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  • Biochemistry: The chemistry of living things is a field of both biology and chemistry
  • Biodiversity: The study of the diversity of life
  • Biogeography: The study of patterns of species distribution and the processes that result in such patterns
  • Botany: The study of plants and fungi (mycology)
  • Cell Biology: The study of the components of cells and their interactions
  • Developmental biology: The study of cell growth and interactions to form an organism
  • Ecology: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment
  • Endocrinology: The study of glands and the hormonal regulation of physiology
  • Ethology: The scientific study of animal behavior
  • Evolutionary biology: Study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time
  • Genetics: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA
  • Immunology: Covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals
  • Marine Biology: The study of life in the seas and oceans
  • Microbiology: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of bacteriology, mycology and parasitology)
  • Molecular biology: The study of molecular interactions within a cell
  • Morphology: The study of structure
  • Neuroscience: The study of nervous systems and their components
  • Physiology: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact
  • Systematics: The study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and how they relate via evolution
  • Systems biology: The study of biological systems as-a-whole, developing quantitative models to explain, predict and control biological systems.
  • Taxonomy: The principles underlying classification, often in a hierarchy
  • Virology: the study of viruses, sometimes included in the field of microbiology
  • Zoology: The study of animals

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