Family

Science

  • Family (biology), a level of scientific classification for organisms
  • Family (periodic table), a group in the periodic table of elements
  • Gene family, a set of similar genes resulting from gene duplications
  • Protein family, a set of similar proteins resulting from gene duplications
  • Tornado family, a series of tornadoes spawned by the same storm cell

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