Disciplines and Occupations

Biology

One of the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES concerned with the origin, structure, development, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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One of the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES concerned with the origin, structure, development, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA or specifics treed under it for biological characteristics and processes of organisms and of the biosphere; note broader heading BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES is also available

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Biology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001695. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001695
  2. Biology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology
  3. Biology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420