Biology

Biology is the study of life.

Biology is also known as a natural science concerned with the study of all living organisms. Although living organisms share some unifying themes, such as their origin from the same basic cellular structure and their molecular basis of inheritance, they are diverse in many other aspects.

The diversity of life leads to many divisions in biological science involved with studying all aspects of living organisms. Biologists look at such topics as origins, structure, function, reproduction, growth and development, behaviour and evolution of different organisms. In addition, biologists consider how living organisms interact with each other, and the environment, on an individual as well as group basis.

Latest News from Biology

CBU Biology Student Receives Top Honours

2011 Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences Conference

Fourteen biology students and two faculty (Tim Rawlings & Vielka Salazar) represented CBU at the APICS Undergraduate Biology Conference in Halifax, March 11-13.  The student body included first year student Jeff MacDonald, second year student Alicia Currie, six third year students Robert Cann,  Brian Finn, Dominic Gniewek, Khelsea MacDonald, James Postlethwaite, and Kurt Simmons and six fourth year students Alison Donovan, Jeff Clements, Jenn Latimer, Samantha Lawrence, Jeff Locke, and Jenn McPhee. 

CBU Biology Professor Recognized as Leading Science Communicator

Last night at the Eighth Annual Discovery Awards for Science and Technology, CBU biology professor, Dr. Martha Jones, was recognized with the 2010 Science Champion Award. The ceremony celebrated the achievements of talented individuals and outstanding companies in Nova Scotia for their national and international work in the fields of science and technology.