biology
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- noun
- /baɪˈɑːlədʒi/
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biología
- The kids in my biology class learned something from it.
So this looks like biology that might not connect.
- So this looks like biology that might not connect.
- Like in high school I took AP Biology, AP chemistry.
- But as someone who studied human biology at Stanford, yeah.
- Then synthetic biology takes it a step further.
- A lot of there's not enough research on biology in that area.
- This is human psychology and biology in the deepest way.
- So many, in the old days, structural biology was a career in itself.
- We needed to have a way of bringing the biology to that incredible data.
Examples
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Let's talk about marine biology if you're open to it.
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Ask students to transfer their knowledge of cell biology and medical research to a new situation.
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So far, the laws of biology are also beyond our control.
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So they serve a really important role in biology with respect to food.
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We needed to have a way of bringing the biology to that incredible data.
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In middle school and high school, we also learn biology, chemistry, and maybe physics.
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The study reported in this article questioned 2,712 college biology students about their high school science experiences.
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We are also grateful to our colleagues in physics, biology, and chemistry for their input and collaboration.
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And we realize now through the research that our biology matches circadian rhythms.
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In high school, I enjoyed studying biology and learning about different ecosystems.
Synonyms
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The study of living things and how they live
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Areas of science that study living things like cells, animals and plants
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The study of living things, like animals, plants, and cells, and how they work
Compounds
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A field that studies the small parts inside cells, like DNA and proteins, and how they work
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The study of how living things change and how new species form over a long time
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A part of a university that teaches and studies living things like animals and plants
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A room with equipment for doing experiments about living things
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Study of how outer space affects living things and search for life elsewhere
How Biological
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Surface Forms
Morphology
biology = bio + logy
The word is transparently built from the combining form bio and the suffix -logy, yielding 'study of life'.
Etymology
Biology comes from the Greek parts bio- meaning 'life' and -logy meaning 'study', the same pieces you see in zoology or geology. So biology is the scientific study of living things and how they work.