Artificial life
... , biology , anthropology and sociology in which unusual computational and theoretical approaches that would be controversial within their home
discipline can be discussed. As a field, it has had a controversial history; John Maynard Smith criticized certain artificial life work in 1995 as ...
Biology
... disciplines that study the growth , reproduction , metabolism , development , diseases , and evolution of plant life .
Zoology is the
discipline which involves the study of animals , which includes the physiology of animals is studied under various fields including anatomy and embryology ...
Cell biology
... Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology ) is an academic
discipline which studies the physiological properties of cells , as well as their behaviours , interactions, and environment ; this is done both on a ...
Cryptozoology
... 1955 book, On The Track of Unknown Animals is often seen as the disipline's genesis, but Huevelmans himself traced the scholarly origins of the
discipline to Anthonid Cornelis Oudemans and his 1892 study, The Great Sea Serpent .
Huevelmans argued that cryptozoology should be undertaken with ...
Evolution
... , ornithology , or herpetology but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution.
Evolutionary biology as an academic
discipline in its own right emerged as a result of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s . It was not until the 1970s and 1980s , ...
Evolutionary biology
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4 Topics in evolutionary biology
History
Main article: History of evolutionary thought
Evolutionary biology as an academic
discipline in its own right emerged as a result of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s . It was not until the 1970s and 1980s , ...
Gene
... is shared by many disciplines, including classical genetics , molecular genetics , evolutionary biology and population genetics . Because each
discipline models the biology of life differently, the usage of the word gene varies between disciplines. It may refer to either material or conceptual ...
Genetics
... populations of organisms drawn from nature but differ somewhat in the choice of which aspect of the organism on which they focus. The foundational
discipline is population genetics which studies the distribution of and change in allele frequencies of genes under the influence of the four evolutionary ...
Glycomics
... Glycomics , or glycobiology is a
discipline of biology that deals with the structure and function of oligosaccharides (chains of sugars ). The term glycomics is derived from the chemical ...
Limnology
... Limnology is a
discipline that concerns the study of in-land waters (both saline and fresh), specifically lakes , ponds and rivers (both natural and manmade), including ...
Neuroscience
... system as a whole.
At this highest level, neuroscientific approaches combine with cognitive science to create cognitive neuroscience , a
discipline first populated mostly by cognitive psychologists , currently becoming a dynamic specialty of its own. Some researchers believe that cognitive ...
Parasitology
... Parasitology is the study of parasites , their hosts , and the relationship between them. As a biological
discipline , the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question, but by their way of life. This means it forms a synthesis ...
Population genetics
... synthesis , its primary founders were Sewall Wright , J. B. S. Haldane and Ronald Fisher , who also laid the foundations for the related
discipline of quantitative genetics .
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2 Population ...
Promoter
... How diseases respond differently to treatment as a result of differences in the underlying molecular origins is partially addressed by the
discipline of pharmacogenomics .
Asthma
population genetics study: Hobbs, K.; Negri, J.; Klinnert, M.; Rosenwasser, L.J.; and Borish, L. (1998). ...
Zoology
... of zoology (before Darwin)
History of zoology (since Darwin)
Zoology ( Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological
discipline which involves the study of animals .
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2 Branches of biology ...