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Abstract
All of the divisions of the natural sciences dealing with the various aspects of the phenomena of life and vital processes. The concept includes anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, and the biology of animals, plants, and microorganisms. It should be differentiated from BIOLOGY, one of its subdivisions, concerned specifically with the origin and life processes of living organisms.
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Synonyms
17 entry terms
- Biologic Sciences
- Biological Science
- Biological Sciences
- Life Sciences
- Science, Biological
- Sciences, Biological
- Biologic Science
- Biological Science Discipline
- Discipline, Biological Science
- Disciplines, Biological Science
- Life Science
- Science Discipline, Biological
- Science Disciplines, Biological
- Science, Biologic
- Science, Life
- Sciences, Biologic
- Sciences, Life
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Aspects Covered
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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Indexing Annotation
BIOLOGY is also available
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History Note
2009 (1991); use BIOLOGY 1975-1990
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Previous Indexing
- Biology (1975-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Biological Science Disciplines. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001690. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001690
- Biological Science Disciplines. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_sciences
- Biological Science Disciplines. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864928