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

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.