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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cell biology: Cell biology – a branch of biology that studies cells including their physiological properties, structure, and function; the organelles they contain; interactions with their environment; and their life cycle, division, and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level. Cell biology research extends to both the great diversities of single-celled organisms like bacteria and the complex specialized cells in multicellular organisms like humans. Formerly, the field was called cytology (from Greek κύτος, ''kytos'', "a hollow;" and -λογία, ''-logia''). == What is cell biology? == Cell biology can be described as all of the following: * Branch of science – A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. * * Branch of natural science – The branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena based on observational and empirical evidence. Validity, accuracy, and social mechanisms ensuring quality control, such as peer review and repeatability of findings, are among the criteria and methods used for this purpose. * * * Branch of biology – The study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. * Academic discipline – Focused study in one academic field or profession. A discipline incorporates expertise, people, projects, communities, challenges, studies, inquiry, and research areas that are strongly associated with a given discipline. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outline of cell biology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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