Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.
- noun The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms.
- noun The plant and animal life of a specific area or region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of life and living things in the widest sense; the body of doctrine respecting living beings; the knowledge of vital phenomena.
- noun In a more special sense, physiology; biophysiology; biotics.
- noun In a technical sense, the life-history of an animal: especially used in entomology.
- noun Animal magnetism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of all
life orliving matter - noun The living organisms of a particular region.
- noun The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all the plant and animal life of a particular region
- noun the science that studies living organisms
- noun characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This led to a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of South Carolina in 1948 and a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Tennessee in 1949.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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You have failed to show that nested hierarchy in biology is any different from any other nested hierarchy.
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Knowledge gained in biology is being transferred to engineering.
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Knowledge gained in biology is being transferred to engineering.
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The purposeful arrangements of parts we see in biology is caused by that which causes the purposeful arrangement of parts?
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The most significant unanswered question in biology is the origin of life.
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AIGUY: The purposeful arrangements of parts we see in biology is caused by that which causes the purposeful arrangement of parts?
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The purposeful arrangements of parts we see in biology is caused by that which causes the purposeful arrangement of parts?
Bunny and a Book 2008
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If you ask the "pro-science" bloggers, any skepticism about orthodox evolutionary biology is "anti-evolution", and nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
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The "nothing in biology" is a metaphor which denotes the enormous volume of evidence which fits together like pieces in a puzzle under the theory of evolution.
bookhling commented on the word biology
I can't believe this word is on such a few wordies lists. People should take their biology seriously, I say.
August 18, 2008
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August 18, 2008
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qroqqa's first list
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