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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?
4 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
both biology and health
- Anonymous10 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
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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.