The disciplines that study living organisms, from molecules to ecosystems and from ancient human cultures to individual behavior: anthropology, biochemistry, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, epidemiology, genetics, genomics, herpetology, immunology, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, mycology, neuroscience, ornithology, pharmacology, psychology, virology and zoology. Excludes paleontology, which studies extinct life through the rock record and is grouped with Earth Sciences, and excludes disciplines that study matter without regard to whether it is alive, which belong to Physical Sciences.
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Natural science can be divided into two main branches: life science and physical science. Life science is alternatively known as biology, and physical science is subdivided into branches: physics, chemistry, astronomy and Earth science.
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