Biology
Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli , tree fern , gazelle , Goliath beetle
Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = reasoned account). It is concerned with the characte...
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 microscopic and molecular level. Cell
biology researches bot...
Developmental biology
Developmental
biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Modern developmental
biology studies the genetic control of cell growth , differentiation and " morphogenesis ," which is the process that gives rise to tissues , organs and anatomy .
Embryology is...
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary
biology is a subfield of
biology concerned with the origin and descent of species , as well as their change over time, i.e. their evolution . One who studies evolutionary
biology is known as an evolutionary biologist , or less frequently evolutionist .
Evolutionary
biology ...
Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary developmental
biology (often referred to as ' evo-devo' or evolution of development ) is a field of
biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental processe...
Marine biology
Marine
biology is the study of animal and plant life within saltwater ecosystems . Given that in
biology many phyla , families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine
biology deals with those species in which life is spent only (or ma...
Mathematical biology
Mathematical
biology or biomathematics is an interdisciplinary field of academic study which aims at modelling natural, biological processes using mathematical techniques and tools. It has both practical and theoretical applications in biological research.
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Molecular biology
Molecular
biology is the study of
biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of
biology , particularly genetics and biochemistry . Molecular
biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the int...
Structural biology
Structural
biology is the study of the architecture and shape of biological macromolecules -- proteins and nucleic acids in particular--and what causes them to have the structures they have. This subject is of great interest to biologists, because macromolecules carry out most of the functio...
Systems biology
Systems
biology is an academic field that seeks to integrate biological data as an attempt to understand how biological systems function. By studying the relationships and interactions between various parts of a biological system (e.g. organelles , cells , physiological systems , organi...
Unsolved problems in biology
Some unsolved problems in
biology include:
Life . How did it start? Is life a cosmic phenomenon? Are the conditions necessary for the origin of life narrow or broad? How did life originate and diversify in hundred millions of years? Why, after rapid diversification, do microorgan...
Abiogenesis
...day, the term is primarily used in the context of
biology and the origin of life .
Some confusion exists o...sis by information theory, Journal of Theoretical
biology 67: 377–398, quotes from pp. 379, 396.)
.... (Yockey, 1992. Information Theory and Molecular
biology , p. 336, Cambridge University Press, UK, ISBN 0-...
Anatomy
...om the Greek anatome , from ana-temnein , to cut up), is the branch of
biology that deals with the structure and organization of living things; thus ther...eeding a knowledge of the allied sciences of embryology or developmental
biology , phylogeny , and histology .
Pathological anatomy (or morbid ana...
AMP
... The three-letter abbreviation AMP can refer to the following:
In
biology , the nucleotide adenosine monophosphate
As a flavour enhancer , the nucleotide adenosine monophosphate
AngryMutantPenguin, a famous fan ...
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
...n the Netherlands . He is best known for his contribution to improvement of the microscope and his contributions towards the establishment of cell
biology . Using his handcrafted microscope he was the first to observe and describe muscle fibres, bacteria , spermatozoa and blood flow in capillarie...
Apoptosis
... In
biology , apoptosis (from the Greek words apo = from... in what was to become the Laboratory of Molecular
biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK. It was at this lab that d...her a framework for a process fundamental to human
biology and human disease."
In 1992, two independent tea...
Archaea
...most aspects of cell structure and metabolism . However, their genetic transcription and translation - the two central processes in molecular
biology - do not show the typical bacterial features, but are extremely similar to those of eukaryotes . For instance, archaean translation uses eukaryotic...
Artificial life
... mathematics , philosophy , computer science ,
biology , anthropology and sociology in which unusual ...
carbon chauvinism
robotics
systems
biology
wet alife
neural nets
Lindenmayer s...e: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet
biology . Vintage Books: Random House, New York. ISBN 0-...
Bacterial conjugation
...tegrated F-plasmid do recombine unusually often, which is why they are also called Hfr- (high frequency recombination-) strains .
See also
biology
genetics
plasmid
...
Sticky end/blunt end
... In
biology , sticky end and blunt end are the two possible configurations resulting from the breaking of double-stranded DNA . DNA exhibits a stabilizing i...
Bacterium
...ences
Some text in this entry was merged with the Nupedia article entitled Bacteria , written by Nagina Parmar; reviewed and approved by the
biology group (editor: Gaytha Langlois, lead reviewer: Gaytha Langlois, lead copyeditors: Ruth Ifcher and Jan Hogle)
Further reading
Alcamo, I...
Bioinformatics
... Bioinformatics or computational
biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematic...e biological problems. Research in computational
biology often overlaps with systems
biology . Major research efforts in the field include seq...
Biochemistry
... living organisms . See the article on molecular
biology for a diagram and description of the interrelat... used in many areas, from genetics to molecular
biology and from agriculture to medicine . The first a...pics
List of biochemistry topics
Molecular
biology
List of biomolecules
List of biochemists
...
Biologist
...a scientist devoted to and producing results in
biology through the study of organisms .
Typically biolo...tment of Labor.)
Training
Many positions in
biology as a field require an academic degree . A PhD (o...g involves a specialization in a specific area of
biology . (U.S. Department of Labor)
See also: List o...
Biotechnology
... Biotechnology is technology based on
biology , especially when used in agriculture , food science , and medicine .
... intein
List of publications in biology#biotechnology
Molecular
biology
Compare with
Biomimetics
...
Biomechanics
..., such as elastic modulus , would be different.
Chemistry , molecular
biology , and cell
biology have much to offer in the way of explaining the active and passive properti...
Biophysics
... methods of the physical sciences to questions of
biology .
Biophysics research today comprises a number of...links
Overview
Traditional studies in
biology are conducted using statistical ensemble experi...as groups across departments within the fields of
biology , biochemistry , chemistry , computer science ,...
Biopolymer
...fold " into characteristic shapes, which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures. Structural
biology is the study of the shapes of biopolymers.
The convention for a protein is to list its constituent amino acid residues as they occur from the ami...
Botany
...scientific study of plant life . As a branch of
biology , it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant
biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific discipl...e officinal uses of plants.
See also
biology
Agriculture , horticulture , forestry and ...
Cancer
... 5 Causes and pathophysiology
5.1 Molecular
biology
5.2 Morphology
5.3 Heredity
5.4 Environme...rs.
Causes and pathophysiology
Molecular
biology
Carcinogenesis (meaning literally, the creatio... for any specific cancer. However, with molecular
biology , it is now possible to characterize the mutations...
Carbohydrate
...menclature
Carbohydrates detailed
Carbohydrates Overview
Carbohydrates and Glycosylation - The Virtual Library of Biochemistry and Cell
biology
...
Carrier
... Carrier has several different meanings:
in telecommunication , a carrier wave
in
biology , an asymptomatic carrier
the Carrier tribe , a First Nations tribe living in British Columbia , Canada ; also the name of their Atha...
Cell nucleus
... In cell
biology , the nucleus (from Latin nucleus or nuculeus , kernel) is an organelle , found in the majority of eukaryotic cells , which contains most o...
Cell growth
... The term cell growth is used in two different ways in
biology . When used in the context of reproduction of living cells the phrase "ce...
Related articles
Bacterial growth
Cancer
Developmental
biology
Stem cell
Cell cycle
...
Centriole
... A centriole in
biology is a hollow cylindrical organelle found in most animal cells , and cells of fungi and algae though not frequently in plants . The walls of...
Centromere
...achments or a primary constriction, and a "diffuse" kinetochore assembles along the entire length of the chromosome.
See also: Genetics -- Cell
biology
External links
Report about Nature Genetics article that centromere of rice genome carries active genes
* Science . 2002 Sep 13;2...
Charles Darwin
...l illness.
Legacy
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution based upon natural selection changed the thinking of countless fields of study from
biology to anthropology . His work established that "evolution" had occurred: not necessarily that it was by natural or sexual selection (this particular r...
Chloroplast
...
See also
Chloroplast membrane
Calvin cycle
External links
Chloroplasts and Photosynthesis: The Role of Light from Kimball's
biology Pages
Chloroplast, Botany
Sources
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Cisterna
... This article relates to cell
biology . For the Italian town, see Cisterna, Italy .
A cisterna (plural cisternae ) comprises a flattened membrane disk which makes up the Golgi ap...
Classical genetics
...iques and methodologies of genetics that predate the advent of molecular
biology . A key discovery of classical genetics in eukaryotes , was genetic linka...etics is often contrasted with reverse genetics , and aspects of molecular
biology are sometimes referred to as molecular genetics .
See also : Genetic li...