Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.13 - Ecology, evolution, systematics and population biology

26.1306 - Population biology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the natural history, life cycle behaviour, and ecosystem dynamics of single species and multi-species communities, and the patterns and causes of diversity within and among such populations. These programs include courses in biostatistics, population dynamics, population and quantitative genetics, RNA and DNA sequences, genomics, evolutionary ecology, natural adaptation and hybridization, geographic differentiation, life history and life cycle studies, and animal and plant demography.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • population biology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • biology(26.0101)
  • epidemiology(26.1309)
  • human biology(30.2701)
  • population studies(45.0501)
  • public health (MPH, DPH)(51.2201)