# Viability

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**Viability** or **viable** may refer to:

## Biology, medicine or ecology

- [Viability selection](/source/Viability_selection), the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
- [Fetal viability](/source/Fetal_viability), the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
- [Genetic viability](/source/Genetic_viability), chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding
- [Minimum viable population](/source/Minimum_viable_population), a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
- [Population viability analysis](/source/Population_viability_analysis), a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
- [Viable count](/source/Viable_count), of viable cells

## Business

- [Viability study](/source/Viability_study), a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
- [Minimum viable product](/source/Minimum_viable_product), in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

## Other uses

- [Viable Paradise](/source/Viable_Paradise), an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
- [Viable system model](/source/Viable_system_model), a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
- [Viable system theory](/source/Viable_system_theory), a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored.
- [Viability theory](/source/Viability_theory), an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

## See also

- [Viability assay](/source/Viability_assay), an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability
- [Via (disambiguation)](/source/VIA_(disambiguation))

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