What are some of the subdisciplines in biology?
Biological sciences include so many approaches to studying living organisms that it is not easy to describe them all. Biologists may specialize on a specific group of organisms or may take a comparative approach to study certain life processes. Life may be studied at various levels – molecular, cellular, organismal, population, community or ecosystem. Some bioscientists are parts of multidisciplinary teams that tackle several aspects of the same problem. Ultimately, however, it is the nature and scope of the research problem that determines which techniques and research strategies are appropriate. New subdisciplines in biology will surely emerge as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and the appearance of new global health and environmental problems. Today, students embarking on a new career in biology would be well advised to position themselves to be adaptable to change; specialization in any one field of biology is no guarantee that it will be a lifelong endeavor. Modern bi
