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

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.02 - Biochemistry/biophysics and molecular biology

26.0208 - Photobiology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the effects of light energy on living organisms, the manufacture and processing of luminescence by organisms, and the uses of light in biological research. These programs include courses in bioluminescence, chronobiology, photomedicine, environmental photobiology, organic photochemistry, photomorphogenesis, photoreceptors and photosensitization, molecular mechanics of photosynthesis, phototechnology, vision, ultraviolet radiation, radiation physics, and spectral research methods.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • photobiology

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• Exclusion(s)

  • biological and physical sciences(30.0101)
  • biology(26.0101)