Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C: A Journal of Biosciences is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal.

It covers "all areas of animal and plant physiology, all aspects of biochemistry, neurobiology, virology and molecular genetics".

[1] Historically, contributions were accepted in either German or English, but the current requirement is for manuscripts to be written in English.

The Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (English: Journal for Nature Research) was established in 1946 and split into two parts (A and B) in 1947.

Since its establishment, the titles used for Part C have been: