biology

Definitions

1. The study of all life or living matter.
   countable, uncountable
2. The study of all life or living matter
3. The living organisms of a particular region.
   countable, uncountable
4. The scientific study of life and of living organisms. Botany, zoology, and ecology are all branches of biology.
5. The living organisms of a particular region
6. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
   countable, uncountable
7. the process of generation of living organisms from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation. — abiogenetic, adj. — abiogenetically, adv.
8. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism
9. A biographical history.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
10. asexual reproduction. — agamogenetic, adj.
11. A biographical history
12. the branch of biology that studies the relation of soil management to the nutrition, growth, and erop yield of plants. — agrobiologist, n. — agrobiologic, agrobiological, adj.
13. the living together of two organisms in a relationship that is destructive to one and has no effect on the other.
14. gradual change in type, usually from a lower to a higher type. Also anamorphosis, (Obsolete) anamorphosy. — anamorphic, adj.
    (Obsolete)
15. connection between parts that have branched off from each other at some earlier point. — anastomotic, adj.
16. a form of reproduction in which dissimilar gametes, often dirfering in size, unite. — anisogamous, anisogamic, adj.
17. any of several processes of asexual reproduction. Cf. parthenogenesis.
18. the branch of ecology that studies the relation of an organism to its environment. Cf. synecology.

Equivalents

Examples

“As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.”

“The object of these prizes is to stimulate and encourage⟳ original investigation by the aid of the microscope in the biology of North America, and, while the competition is open⟳ to all, it is especially commended to advanced students in biology in such of our universities and colleges as furnish opportunity for suitable work⟳.”

“the biology of the whale”

“That a Town has a biology of its own⟳ has been, since Freeman and Green, a familiar idea to us. But it was not in England, with its old established central governments, that the idea was likely to arise⟳; and we know⟳ what the local history of our old antiquaries was like⟳.”

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