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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life. [e]

Subtopics

• Origin of life [r]: How did self-replicating biochemistry and cells arise from the prebiotic world approximately four billion years ago? Aka abiogenesis. [e]

Other related topics

• Systems biology [r]: The study of biological systems as a whole [e]
• Homeostasis (biology) [r]: The coordinated physiological reactions which maintain most of the steady states in an organism. [e]
• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
• Cell (biology) [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks and a membrane. [e]
• Evolution of cells [r]: The birth of cells marked the passage from pre-biotic chemistry to partitioned units resembling modern cells. [e]
• Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
• Life/Addendum: Supplementary text to main article Life and Life/Draft
• Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
• Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
• Organic chemistry [r]: The scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements. [e]
• Aristotle [r]: (384 BC-322) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, possibly the most influential mind in the western world in the period between 350 B.C. and the 16th century. [e]
• History of biology