Cell biology is also called cytology and cellular biology. It is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology. Molecular biology is primarily concerned with studying biology at the molecular level, however, cell biology is solely concerned with the study of the various processes inside the cell such as metabolism, cell division etc. Term papers on cell biology usually require detailed descriptions of the physiological properties of the cell, its structure as well as of the organelles that they contain. Cell biology is also concerned with the interactions of the environment, their life cycle and even their death. As the techniques applied in cell biology involves are mainly through microscope at the molecular level, it is often confused with molecular biology. Cell and molecular biology term papers are mainly written in the CSE/CBE Style.

Cell biology researches into both unicellular bacterial cells to complex multi-cellular animal cells. Composition of cells and their functioning are fundamental aspects of biology. Identifying and comprehending the basic similarities and differences can offer the groundwork for generalizing cells types. Research papers on cell biology often require knowledge of associated fields of biochemistry, genetics, developmental biology as well as molecular biology. Molecular biology deals with the study of interactions of different systems of cells particularly the interactions of RNA, DNA and protein biosynthesis. Molecular genetics has received the most attention in the recent years as a sub-field of molecular biology. Work in molecular biology is mainly quantitative and overlapping fields have increasingly emerged such as computational biology and bioinformatics.