Cell biology

Cell biology (also called cellular biology or cytology, from the Greek kytos, "container") is an academic discipline which studies cells. This includes their physiological properties such as their structure and the organelles they contain, their environment and interactions, their life cycle, division and function (physiology) and eventual death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level, and cell biology researches both single-celled organisms like bacteria and specialized cells in multicellular organisms like humans.

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Greek - Academic discipline - Cell - Physiological - Organelles - Life cycle - Division - Death - Microscopic - Molecular - Bacteria - Human

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Knowing the composition of cells and how cells work is fundamental to all of the biological sciences. Appreciating the similarities and differences between cell types is particularly important to the fields of cell and molecular biology. These fundamental similarities and differences provide a unifying theme, allowing the principles learned from studying one cell type to be extrapolated and generalized to other cell types.

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Research in cell biology is closely related to genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology and developmental biology.

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Genetics - Biochemistry - Molecular biology - Developmental biology

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