BS 1000[57]:1979

Foreword
Scope
Related subjects
Auxiliary signs and subdivisions
Typographic presentation
Abbreviations
Bibliographical references
Cooperating organizations
Schedule
Special auxiliary subdivisions
57.01 General laws, theoretical aspects,
        characteristics, properties
57.02 Biological and ethological processes:
        mechanisms, interaction with environment
57.03 Pattern of property variations
        (characteristics). Rate of biological
        phenomena or processes. Kinetics. Equilibrium
57.04 Factors. Influences
57.05 Characteristics dependent on control properties.
        Principles of control processes at various
        levels
57.06 Nomenclature and classification systems of
        organisms. Taxonomy
57.07 Extinct species, orders, etc. Fossil plants,
        animals and man
57.08 Biological techniques, experimental methods
        and equipment
Principal divisions
572 Anthropology
573 General and theoretical biology
574 General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology.
        Biogeography
575 General gentics. General cytogenetics.
        Immunogenetics. Evolution. Speciation.
        Phylogeny
576 Cellular and subcellular biology. Cytology
577 Material bases of life. Biochemistry.
        Molecular biology. Biophysics
578 Virology
579 Microbiology
Alphabetical subject index

Gives classed information about scientific methods and research common to all the biological sciences; also virology and microbiology. Some specific biological subjects are classed elsewhere, notably botany at 58, zoology at 59 and human physiology at 612. Application of biological knowledge to the preservation of human health is classed in the divisions of 61; and animal health at 619 or 636.09.