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Does nutrition fall under the branch of biology?

Or is it it's own category of science such as physics, biology, and chemistry?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    both biology and health

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Almost

    Aerobiology • Anatomy • Arachnology • Astrobiology

    Bacteriology • Batrachology • Biochemistry • Bionics • Biogeography • Bioinformatics • Biological psychiatry • Biomechanics • Biomedical • Biophysics • Biotechnology • Botany

    Cell biology • Chorology • Cladistics • Carcinology • Computational biology • Cryptozoology • Cycles • Cytology • Conservation biology

    Dendrology • Developmental biology • Disease (Genetic diseases, Infectious diseases)

    Ecology (Theoretical ecology, Symbiology, Autecology, Synecology) • Environmental science • Epidemiology • Ethology • Entomology • Evolutionary biology (Evolution) • Evolutionary developmental biology • Endocrinology • Enzymology • Embryology • Exobiology

    Freshwater biology

    Genetics (Population genetics, Quantitative genetics, Genomics, Proteomics)

    Herpetology • Histology • Human biology

    Ichthyology • Immunology • Infectious diseases

    Limnology

    Malacology • Mammalogy • Marine biology • Matrix biology • Medicine • Microbiology (Bacteriology) • Molecular biology • Morphology • Mycology (Lichenology) • Myrmecology • Microbiology

    Nematology • Neuroscience (Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Systems neuroscience, Biological psychology, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Behavioral science, Neuroethology, Psychophysics, Computational neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive science)

    Oncology • Ontogeny • Ophiology • Origin of life • Ornithology

    Paleontology (Paleobotany, Paleozoology) • Parasitology • Pathology • Pharmacology • Photobiology • Phycology (Algology) • Phylogeny (Phylogenetics, Phylogeography) • Physiology • Phytopathology • Population biology • Protistology

    Quantum biology

    Reproductive biology

    Scatology • Structural biology • Systems biology • Synthetic biology • Sociobiology • Symbiology

    Taxonomy • Toxicology

    Virology • Veterinary medicine

    Xenobiology

    Zoology

    But not quite. It might be under Human Biology if anything

  • 10 years ago

    It's its own category.

    A general rule of thumb - if an undergraduate course can be taught on it, it is usually its own subject.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Psychology is the best choice.

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