Biology as an integrating natural science domain: a proposal for BSc (Hons) in integrated biology

Muralidhar, Kambadur (2008) Biology as an integrating natural science domain: a proposal for BSc (Hons) in integrated biology Resonance - Journal of Science Education, 13 (3). pp. 272-276. ISSN 0971-8044

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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12045-008-0041-x

Abstract

In this article, I present arguments in support of teaching biology as one of the integrating natural science domains at the higher secondary school and the undergraduate levels and not as phylogenic group-based subdisciplines like botany, zoology and microbiology or functional subdisciplines like genetics and biochemistry. This is possible only if we conceptualize biology and try to understand its philosophical underpinnings.

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Keywords:Biology; Undergraduate Teaching; Conceptualised Biology; Reductionist Biology
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