biol
- noun
- /ˈbaɪəl/
- Informal
- She read an article in biol about the effects of climate change on marine life.
- biol chem
- mol biol
- biol reprod
Examples
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The professor's course on biol covers everything from genetics to ecology.
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PLoS Biol 12: e1001912, 2014.
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Davies J, Davies D. 2010. Origins and evolution of antibiotic resistance. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 74:417-433.
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Chen T, Li E. 2004. Structure and function of eukaryotic DNA methyltransferases. Curr Top Dev Biol 60:55-89.
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Martinez JL. 2009. The role of natural environments in the evolution of resistance traits in pathogenic bacteria. Proc Biol Sci 276:2521-2530.
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(Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1995 Apr 30; 32(1):33-9) seems indicative.
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(36) Srivastava RK: Intracellular mechanisms of TRAIL and its role in cancer therapy. Mol Cell Biol Res Commun 4: 67-75, 2000.
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Oncotarget (2015) #3. Teshima, T., Reddy, P., Zeiser, R.: Acute graft-versus-host disease: novel biological insights. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 22:11-16
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Many students choose to major in biol because they are interested in healthcare and research.
Synonyms
The study of living things and how they live
The study of living things, like animals, plants, and cells, and how they work
Areas of science that study living things like cells, animals and plants
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word biol is an informal short form of biology, made from bio- meaning 'life' and the part -logy meaning 'study'. So as a noun biol means 'the study of living things' or the school subject about life.