10 RESEARCHABLE BIOLOGY DISSERTATION TOPICS

For students pursuing their Masters and PhDs, dissertations form an important part of the curriculum. They define not just their final grades but also their careers. Many PhD candidates put in excessive detailing and time to get just the right thesis and results for their respective research papers, for they are the most crucial points in their education. Thus, a dissertation topic needs to be interesting, insightful and innovative so as to ensure participation, results and information. Thus, here are ten researchable Biology dissertation topics:

  1. Animal Behavior: Reciprocity in Dogs towards Humans
  2. Better known as reciprocal altruism, it is a phenomenon that has earlier been studied in extensive detail in primates and even cats. The purpose of this study can be to explore this same happening and its measures in dogs.

  3. Effects of Mephedrone on Rabbits
  4. Even after the ban that was placed on Mephedrone, the substance has not been clearly studied. Therefore, the dissertation can explore its long-term effects on rabbits.

  5. Do ion channel mutations lead to neuro-degeneration?
  6. Through an in depth study of already existing research material, this dissertation explores the effect of neuro-degenerative diseases like epilepsy and their relations to mutations relating to ion channels.

  7. The complications of having Savior Siblings
  8. The dissertation can explore the ethics related to the concept of savior siblings, that is, brothers and sisters who are born solely for the purpose of serving as a genetic match for their older siblings, who are usually suffering from a terminable disease.

  9. Maternal diet and How it Influences Childhood Obesity
  10. It is a dissertation that will explore how diet during the pregnancy affects the early years of the offspring, and how eating habits can potentially alter the child’s body weight.

  11. Mental Time Travel in Domesticated Animals
  12. This dissertation explores certain ‘time travelling’ tendencies in domesticated animals like cats and dogs and how it can help them to survive even without humans.

  13. The Effect of Sewage Outlets on Corals
  14. This dissertation can explore one of the most troubling matters of the present time: how the proximity and use of sewage outlets near coral reefs can affect the latter’s health and consequently also the sea’s habitat.

  15. Methods of Testing Cancers
  16. A deadly disease all over the world, cancer usually takes long to detect and is even longer and harder to treat. This dissertation can discuss alternative and quick ways to detect as well as treat cancer.

  17. Changes in Ecosystem Functioning due to Contemporary Evolution
  18. Global changes have fathered numerous changes in not only the physical but also the functional and chemical makeup of the Earth. This dissertation can explore how functions in ecosystems change now due to contemporary evolution in both flora and fauna.

  19.  Traits that Promote Diverse Ranges and Evolutionary Radiations in Fungi
  20. There are numerous species of fungi, each related but with a few unique characteristics of its own. The dissertation can explore the various links between the different species of fungi and their evolutionary radiations.  

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