Concept information
Preferred term
biology
Definition
- BIOLOGY, THE STUDY of life, has grown in complexity and comprehensiveness from its origins in antiquity. By the 20th century, biology was not a single science, but a group of subfields. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Biology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- aerobiology
- agricultural biology
- anatomy
- biochemistry
- biodiversity
- biological taxonomy
- biopharmaceutics
- biophysics
- biotechnology
- botany
- cell biology
- computational biology
- developmental biology
- ecology
- exobiology
- genetics
- human biology
- hydrobiology
- laboratory animal science
- marine biology
- microbiology
- molecular biology
- natural history
- neurobiology
- neuroscience
- optical biology
- paleontology
- parasitology
- photobiology
- physiology
- practical biology
- radiation biology
- radiobiology
- sociobiology
- synthetic biology
- theoretical biology
- zoology
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/biology
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