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- 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 diversity of life. [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 biological systems by physical methods. [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Cell biology [r]: The study of the components of 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]: The study of glands and the hormonal regulation of physiology. [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 bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). [e]
- Molecular biology [r]: The study of molecular interactions within cells. [e]
- Morphology [r]: The study of biological structure. [e]
- 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]: The principles underlying classification, often in a hierarchy. [e]
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means [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 [r]: The study of natural objects or organisms often relating to biology. [e]
- Geography [r]: Add definition
- 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 definition
Techniques
- Cell culture [r]: Add definition
- Centrifugation [r]: Add definition
- Chromatography [r]: Add definition
- Computational Morphometry [r]: Add definition
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy [r]: Add definition
- Dielectrophoresis [r]: Add definition
- DNA sequencing [r]: Add definition
- DNA microarray [r]: used to measure and compare the expression levels for thousands of genes between different experimental samples. [e]
- Electrorotation [r]: Add definition
- Enzyme assay [r]: Add definition
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add definition
- Gel electrophoresis [r]: Add definition
- Genetic engineering [r]: Add definition
- Green fluorescent protein [r]: Add definition
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add definition
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy [r]: Add definition
- Northern blot [r]: Add definition
- Optical Tweezers [r]: Add definition
- Patch clamp [r]: Add definition
- Polymerase chain reaction [r]: Add definition
- Protein purification [r]: Add definition
- Restriction enzyme [r]: Add definition
- Scanning electron microscopy [r]: Add definition
- Southern blot [r]: Add definition
- Transformation [r]: Add definition
- Transmission electron microscopy [r]: Add definition
- Two-hybrid screening [r]: Add definition
- UV Laser ablation [r]: Add definition
- Vector [r]: Add definition
- Western blot [r]: Add definition
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General
- Life [r]: A dynamic system with homeostasis, compositionality, metabolism, growth, adaptation, irritability and reproduction [e]
- Species [r]: Add definition
Tree of life
- Tree of life [r]: Add definition
- Phylogeny [r]: Add definition
- Animal [r]: Add definition
- Plant [r]: Add definition
- Fungi [r]: Add definition
- Protist [r]: Add definition
- Bacteria [r]: Add definition
- Archaea [r]: Add definition
- Prokaryote [r]: Add definition
- Eukaryote [r]: Add definition
- Three-domain system [r]: Add definition
- Angiosperm [r]: Add definition
- Insect [r]: Add definition
- Nematode [r]: Add definition
- Virus [r]: Add definition
Classification of man
- Primate [r]: A member of the biological order Primates, which includes prosimians (galagos, lorises, lemurs and tarsiers), monkeys, apes, and humans. [e]
- Mammal [r]: Add definition
- Vertebrate [r]: Add definition
- Craniata [r]: Add definition
- Chordate [r]: Add definition
- Deuterostome [r]: Add definition
- Animal [r]: Add definition
The cell
- Cell wall [r]: Add definition
- Cell membrane [r]: Add definition
- Cytoskeleton [r]: The mechanical scaffold determining the shape of a cell [e]
- Mitochondrion [r]: Add definition
- Chloroplast [r]: Add definition
- Nucleus [r]: Add definition
- Endoplasmic reticulum [r]: Add definition
- Golgi apparatus [r]: Add definition
- Cell cycle [r]: Add definition
- Mitosis [r]: Add definition
- Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
- Cell signaling [r]: Add definition
- Protein targeting [r]: Add definition
Ecology
- Biomass [r]: Add definition
- Food chain [r]: Add definition
- Indicator species [r]: Add definition
- Extinction [r]: Add definition
- Habitat [r]: Add definition
- Species distribution [r]: Add definition
- Gaia theory [r]: Add definition
Conservation
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the diversity of life. [e]
- Biodiversity hotspot [r]: Add definition
- Nature reserve [r]: Add definition
- Edge effect [r]: Add definition
- Allee effect [r]: Add definition
- Corridor [r]: Add definition
- Fragmentation [r]: Add definition
- Pollution [r]: Add definition
- Invasive species [r]: Add definition
- In situ - ex situ [r]: Add definition
- Seedbank [r]: Add definition
- Environmental economics [r]: Add definition
Evolution
- Natural selection [r]: The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics [e]
- Genetic drift [r]: Describes how some alleles either increase or decrease in a population due to chance events. [e]
- Sexual selection [r]: Add definition
- Speciation [r]: An event that produces two lineages that become separate species. [e]
- Mutation [r]: Changes to the DNA sequence that cause new genetic variation. [e]
- Gene flow [r]: The movement of genetic alleles from one population to another. If there is a low gene flow between two populations they may become distinct species. [e]
Development
- Tissues [r]: Add definition
- Fertilization [r]: Add definition
- Embryogenesis [r]: Add definition
- Gastrulation [r]: Add definition
- Neurulation [r]: Add definition
- Organogenesis [r]: Add definition
- Differentiation [r]: Add definition
- Morphogenesis [r]: Add definition
- Metamorphosis [r]: Add definition
- Ontogeny [r]: Add definition
Life cycle
- Reproduction [r]: Add definition
- Ploidy [r]: Add definition
- Spermatogenesis [r]: Add definition
- Alternation of generations [r]: Add definition
- Oogenesis [r]: Add definition
- Parasitism [r]: Add definition
- Evolution of sex [r]: Add definition
- Meiosis [r]: Add definition
- DNA replication [r]: Add definition
Biochemistry
- DNA [r]: A macromolecule that stores genetic information. Chemically, a nucleic acid. [e]
- RNA [r]: Add definition
- Protein [r]: Add definition
- Enzyme [r]: Add definition
- Protein folding [r]: Add definition
- Carbohydrate [r]: Add definition
- Lipid [r]: Add definition
- Glycolysis [r]: Add definition
- Citric acid cycle [r]: Add definition
- Electron transport chain [r]: Add definition
- Oxidative phosphorylation [r]: Add definition
- Photosynthesis [r]: Add definition
- Protein structure [r]: Add definition
Genetics
- Gene [r]: Add definition
- Genome [r]: Add definition
- Karyotype [r]: Add definition
- Transcription [r]: Add definition
- Translation [r]: Add definition
- Recombination [r]: Add definition
- Chromosome [r]: Add definition
- Mendelian inheritance [r]: Add definition
- Phenotype [r]: Add definition
- Genotype [r]: Add definition
- Epigenetics [r]: Add definition
- Splicing [r]: Add definition
- Mutation [r]: Changes to the DNA sequence that cause new genetic variation. [e]
- Genetic fingerprint [r]: Add definition
- Chromatin [r]: Add definition
- Classical genetics [r]: Add definition
- Ecological genetics [r]: Add definition
- Molecular genetics [r]: Add definition
- Population genetics [r]: Add definition
- Quantitative genetics [r]: Add definition
