Outline of biology
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Structured list :
- unsorted topics : Adaptive radiation -- Allele -- Antibiotic -- Apoptosis -- Asexual reproduction -- Biodiversity -- Colony -- Culture -- Ecology -- Genotype -- Genus -- Growth curve -- Hybridization -- Life -- Metabolism -- Microbe -- Population -- Sexual reproduction -- Species -- Trait
- viruses : DNA viruses -- RNA viruses -- Retroviruses
- eukaryotes : fungi -- plants -- animals
- archaebacteria -- eubacteria -- protista (protozoa) -- fungi -- plantae -- animalia (metazoa)
- the cell (cell biology)
- components : proteins -- enzymes -- amino acids -- lipids
- organelles etc.
- ribosomes -- endoplasmic reticulum -- Golgi apparatus -- nucleus -- cytoplasm -- vacuole -- vesicle -- mitochondrion -- endomembrane system -- lysosome -- peroxisome -- chloroplast
- genetics : haploid -- diploid -- homozygote -- heterozygote -- DNA -- RNA -- transcription -- translation -- transcriptional regulation -- plasmid -- chromosome -- DNA replication -- genetic regulation -- promoter -- enhancer -- mutation -- allele -- locus -- genotype -- phenotype -- Mendelian inheritance -- genetic code -- gene -- nucleosome -- histone
- developmental biology : embryo -- gamete -- morphogenesis -- Drosophila
- Immunology : Cancer -- Antibody -- Host -- Vaccine
- Biochemistry : protein biosynthesis -- cellular respiration -- Citric acid cycle -- photosynthesis -- Phospholipid -- Polysaccharide -- Prion -- signal transduction -- Proteolysis
- lab techniques : PCR -- PCR mutagenesis -- Primer -- chromosome walking -- RFLP -- restriction enzyme -- sequencing -- cloning
- biologists : Charles Robert Darwin -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Jean Lamarck -- Sir Charles Lyell -- Alexander Fleming -- Robert Koch -- Konrad Lorenz -- Ernst Haeckel -- Theodor Bilharz -- Marcello Malpighi -- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek -- Thomas Malthus -- Jenner -- Carolus Linnaeus -- Sewall Wright -- Louis Pasteur -- Gregor Mendel -- James Watson -- Francis Crick -- Kary Mullis -- Craig Venter
- organs / tissues and cell types : neuron -- eye -- blood cell -- skin cell -- muscle cell -- immune cell -- Joint -- stem cell -- brain -- liver -- kidney -- heart -- Bone -- lung
- Biology Divisions : Anatomy -- Biochemistry -- Biophysics -- Bioinformatics -- Biotechnology -- Botany -- Cell biology -- Ecology -- Evolution -- Genetics -- Immunology -- Marine biology -- Microbiology -- Molecular biology -- Mycology -- Neuroscience -- Paleontology -- Parasitology -- Photobiology -- Phycology -- Physiology -- Plant physiology -- Radiobiology -- Structural biology -- Taxonomy -- Theoretical biology -- Virology -- Zoology