### science | biology | biotechnology:

Agricultural biotechnology
* holds promise for a hungry and ecologically fragile world.
* is an area where growth is outpacing that of nearly all other fields
  - one of the most promising developments in modern science
  - seen as the domain of big-name multinational corporations
  - the use of plant or animal products in order to enhance products
* offers benefits to consumers, farmers and the environment.
* reduces our dependence on pesticides.
* significant and growing contributor to the western economy.

Food biotechnology
* can help increase the world s food supply.
* is about benefiting the food supply
  - based on age-old principles of selective breeding
  - the use of genetic science to create new products from plants and animals

Marine biotechnology
* fast growing sector of the region's ocean technology expertise.
* rapidly growing field.

Modern biotechnology
* aims to understand and exploit biological processes for practical ends.
* has the capacity to contribute significantly to world food security.
* includes genetic engineering and cloning.
* is based on the industrial exploitation of microbes
  - one of the ways by which such improvements can be achieved

Molecular biotechnology
* is undeniably where the money is, both in academia and industry.
* looks at applications of biologically based sciences.
* scientific discipline that is based on that ability.

Botany
* Most botany shows growth.
* Some botany presents physiology.
* deals with types.
* has limitations.

### science | biology | botany:

Economic botany
* concerns the past, present, and future use of plants by people.
* includes the study of botany harmful and beneficial plants and plant products.

Mycology
* Mycologies are botany.
* branch of botany that deals with fungi.
* is biology
  - the scientific name for the study of fungi
* is the study of fungi - it branch of biology
  - and their genetics, taxonomy and biochemistry
  - fungi, including wild mushrooms

Cellular biology
* is one facet of biology that is intensely studied.
* looks to the gene to specify a structural element.

Computational biology
* encompasses bioinformatics and mathematical biology.
* field at the frontier of genetics.
* new emerging area that has applications as broad as biology itself.

Conservation biology
* is an actual science with very specific requirements
  - effort to protect biodiversity
  - integrative approach to the protection and management of biodiversity
  - dedicated to collaborative conservation biology research and education
* relatively new discipline.

Cryobiology
* Cryobiologies are biology.
* is the science of preserving biological specimens at low temperatures
  - that studies biological activity at low temperatures
  - study of living things at low temperature
* routinely is used to preserve tissues such as blood and skin.
* usually judges success by restoration of vital functions and spontaneous reanimation.

Developmental biology
* is at the core of all biology
  - concerned with the processes underlying the development of organisms
  - something almost completely ignored in discussions of feather evolution
* suggests that a strict belief in absolute sexual dimorphism is incorrect.

### science | biology:

Embryology
* Some embryology has outcomes.
* begins with cells resulting from reproductive systems.
* continues to play a role in current evolutionary dogma.
* has to do with the young or developmental stages of animals.
* is concerned with the development of the embryo and the foetus
  - covered from implantation to birth
  - similar to renal duplication
  - the science studying the emergence of living order
* is the study of early or developmental stages of life
  - the early development of animals and plants
* study of how cells in the embryo of various organisms decide their fates.
* teaches that early embryos all start out as female.