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Anatomy, is the branch of biology that deals with the structure and organization of living things.

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Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology, which is focused primarily on the study of the origin, distribution and evolution of life.

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Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science, and chemistry, especially biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.

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Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. 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 disciplines that study the structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, ecology, and evolution of plants.

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Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology, from the Greek kytos, "container") is an academic discipline that studies cells.

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Cladistics (Greek: κλάδος, klados = branch) is a branch of biology that determines the evolutionary relationships between organisms based on derived similarities.

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Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop.

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Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment.

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Entomology is the scientific study of insects.

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Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

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In biology, evolution is the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by shifts in the allele frequencies of genes. Discuss Here.

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Evolutionary developmental biology (evolution of development or informally, evo-devo) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals and plants in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship between organisms and how developmental processes evolved.

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Freshwater biology is a field of biology that studies the life and ecosystems of freshwater habitats. This includes animal, plant and microbial life in lakes, rivers and ponds.

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Genetics is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms.

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Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:19 am

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Histology is the study of tissue sectioned as a thin slice, using a microtome. It can be described as microscopic anatomy.

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Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms.

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Marine biology is the scientific study of the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the ocean.

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Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:35 am

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Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms.

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Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level.

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Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms.

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Neuroscience is a scientific discipline that studies the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.

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Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) describes the origin and the development of an organism from the fertilized egg to its mature form.

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Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:28 pm

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Phycology (or algology), a subdiscipline of botany, is the scientific study of algae.

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Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:50 pm

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In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations).

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Physical anthropology, or biological anthropology, analyzes the working parts of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution.

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Physical therapy (or physiotherapy) is a health-care profession/science that is concerned with human movement and function, and aims to help people maximize potential.

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Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms.

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Population dynamics is the study of marginal and long-term changes in the numbers, individual weights and age composition of individuals in one or several populations, and biological and environmental processes influencing those changes.

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Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology concerned with 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.

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Taxonomy was once only the science of classifying living organisms (alpha taxonomy), but later the word was applied in a wider sense, and may also refer to either a classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification.

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Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:27 am

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Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.

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Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:58 am

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Virology, often considered a part of microbiology or of pathology, is the study of biological viruses: their structure and classification, their ways to infect and exploit cells to reproduce and cause disease, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their potential uses in research and therapy.

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Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:29 pm

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Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.

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