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[bahy-uh-loj-i-kuhl]

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adjective

pertaining to biology.

of or pertaining to the products and operations of applied biology: a biological test.

noun

Pharmacology. any substance, as a serum or vaccine, derived from animal products or other biological sources and used to treat or prevent disease.

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Also, bi·o·log·ic.

Origin:
1855–60; biolog(y) + -ical

Related forms

bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective

non·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

pseu·do·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective

pseu·do·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

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sem·i·bi·o·log·ic, adjective

sem·i·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective

sem·i·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

un·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective

un·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

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For many conservationists, prospects for maintaining the earth's biological diversity are dim at best.

But what is emerging from this research is a cluster of biological markers that plant the bad seed in the brain.

Working out how biological clocks operate has been a hard graft.

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For many conservationists, prospects for maintaining the earth's biological diversity are dim at best.

But what is emerging from this research is a cluster of biological markers that plant the bad seed in the brain.

Working out how biological clocks operate has been a hard graft.

Yet the three populations have evolved different biological adaptations for surviving in oxygen-thin air, a new report says.

When it comes to reproduction, human females aren't the only ones to hear the tick-tock of their biological clocks.

The biological urge is too strong to resist for penguin chicks as they fledge and dive into the water for the first time.

New waterfall boxes combine a waterfall and biological filter in a single box.

The biological legacy of childhood poverty may linger for decades, leaving adults who grew up poor more likely to get sick.

There may be opportunities for teaching more advanced courses in the biological sciences and genetics.

But not all, and the stockpile cannot protect against biological agents authorities haven't seen or don't expect.

Biological controls use pests' natural enemies against them.

The fact that is has a social effect does not decline from the biological aspect, they are one in the same.

But the biological imperative is clear: feed the larger chick.

Perhaps we've got a biological oddity growing in our hives.

He often explores the consequences of food limitation on biological systems.

There would thus be a biological advantage in tribal branding, as it were.

Well-known biological controls include the lady beetle and lacewing.

But social motives are different from biological ones.

Just as in biological evolution, small changes in the fundamental constants can occur in the course of reproduction.

Bioinformatics involves the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.

The human impulse to be kind to unknown individuals is not the biological aberration it might seem.

Scientists refer to these areas as biological hot spots.

Most of the body's cells end life dramatically: upon completing their biological tasks or sustaining damage, they kill themselves.

It is some small consolation to discover, even at this late date, that perhaps my affliction has biological roots.

After an update to its software, a robot scientist has recycled its previous research to make a new biological discovery.

Such a device might detect biological weapons, run genetic tests or sniff out contaminants.

He and his colleagues are also developing synthetic setae based on the biological design of the gecko.

Unstructured proteins, according to biological orthodoxy, are pathological.

Endless hours of hard work won't compensate for our biological limitations.

Allylix gets around this by engineering the genes for new biological pathways into yeast cells.

Biological pollutants are especially dangerous to those with allergies, asthma and other respiratory disorders.

The biological picture of space and time must be integrated into our understanding of physics.

They manufacture other sorts of biological molecules, such as fats and sugars.

Scientists have not finished cataloging the biological richness of this ecoregion, but they already know it's a special place.

The first molecular motors will help scientists finally understand what makes natural biological motors tick.

But the track record of the purely biological approach to thinking and human behaviour is poor.

Biological controls for termites include reliance on their natural predators.

The open-source software movement has finally met the world of biological modeling.

Governments have investigated it as a potential biological weapon.

In fact, biological weapons have already been used many times in history.

Most biological colors of past geological ages are lost to time, existing only in the imagination's eye.

But for now the researchers aren't sure why the cod employ this biological trick.

Bryozoans have similar calcium carbonate skeletons as tropical corals, though they belong to a different biological group.

The robots are based on the principles of biological replication.

Relman is working on ways to identify the pathogens in a biological attack.

Even a biological study must control for behaviorial variables.

But what if there is a biological reason for why we.

Whether they're counting minutes, months or years, biological clocks help to keep our brains and bodies running on schedule.

For scientists, one of the lessons is that there are human beings behind every biological sample used in the laboratory.

Biological filters, which combine mechanical and bacterial.

Civil strife often persists when the fight is over resources, and such fights often happen in biological havens.

Furthermore, what good is the biological conclusion when additional human behavior.

The second set of ethical worriers are those who fret that biological knowledge may be used to serve nefarious ends.

Simple biological computer may someday perform complex diagnoses of cancer and other diseases from inside individual cells.

America's newest heroes had to struggle into biological isolation suits tossed through the hatch after splashdown.

For years, some scientists have suspected that quantum mechanics might have a little something to do with biological processes.

To be an adoptee searching for biological parents is to scan strangers' faces, wondering whether they might be the ones.

The authors acknowledge that biological factors may play a role in the discrepancy between boys' and girls' behavior.

Arkansas deploys facilities built to detect chemical and biological weapons to keep tabs on ever-evolving synthetic pot products.

But scientists didn't know how biological visual systems estimate blur so well.

If that is true, they say, the steady reduction of biological diversity now taking.

Understanding the human mind in biological terms has emerged as the central challenge for science in.

Biologists seek to create living machines and biological devices that can perform novel tasks.

As has been pointed out, there are biological determinants in play.

Light regulates the body's biological clock-priming an individual's metabolism for predictable events such as meals and slumber.

Researchers are revealing the biological basis of persistent, pathological pain-and providing clues to better treatments.

Although the biological impact of an extinct cheetah population may be minimal.

The study ofelectromagnetic fields and their influence on biological systems is incraaiing rapidly.

We as a species wouldn't survive if biological parents were the only ones best suited to raise their offspring.

Once it had them, it already knew how to turn out chemical and biological warheads in months or weeks.

He also suggested that men may hold a biological advantage in the pursuit of science and engineering careers.

Neuroscientists are finding that their biological descriptions of the brain may fit together best when.

He was also a useful antidote against a certain strain of biological romanticism.

Something as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species.

Studying bigfoot is likewise damaging to the biological sciences.

Most strong biological structures of this sort-bones, teeth, shells and so on-are highly mineralised.

Spores of the deadly disease can be used in biological terrorism and warfare.

Numerous animals act in similar ways, but the biological basis of the behavior.

Other researchers have been looking into whether there is a biological basis to the polarized reactions to cilantro's flavor.

They even tried to get a hold of biological weapons.

The essential fuzziness of biological systems can never be captured by the.

Biodegradable products are those that can be decomposed by microbes and other natural biological processes.

Men go through their own biological changes after a baby is born.

Expedited removal of insect eaters and natural plant propagators from the biological ecosystem will upset the natural balance.

Composting is part of the earth's biological cycle of growth and decay.

Though technology may nowadays have absorbed much of biological science as well as quantum.

Our over-lit nights also impact animals by disrupting biological rhythms and interfering with the behavior of nocturnal animals.

But researchers are beginning to uncover a biological explanation for the problem:.

Within the next decade, people may slow their biological clocks.

What biological advantage accrues to those who behave in a trusting and co-operative way with.

The island's geographic isolation created a wonderland of biological richness.

Children remain entirely in the dark during the biological changes and in many cases ostracize by there parents.

The changes appear to reflect biological evolution.

We still cling stubbornly to the idea of an animating soul, a spiritual ghost in the biological machine.

The research may also shed light on questions about the biological purpose of menopause.

Worse, they could inadvertently disperse any buried chemical or biological agents into the surrounding areas--with lethal effect.

But a growing number of scientists do say that neo-Darwinian evolution doesn't explain certain jumps in biological complexity:.

America leads a posse of governments in disrupting illicit trade in nuclear, chemical and biological materials.

Hoy noted, however, that some scientists argue that so-called musical sounds created by animals serve only a biological function.

Diatoms already secrete silica by exocytosis-a biological process by which cells direct secreted material outside the cell walls.

Like political revolutions, though, biological ones often follow a predictable course.

They are often hotspots of biological diversity and production that often attract concentrations of.

Neuroscientists have long debated the biological basis for human face perception.

Biological research has been in the hands of big companies because they had the money to do the work.

Biomechanics research shows that biological propulsion is often more efficient than anything humans engineer.

The reason for the region's low biological activity relative to the high levels of some nutrients is a little harder to pin down.

There is, of course, one big difference between biological and machine evolution.

Coral reefs are the rain forests of the oceans, teeming with a biological diversity that boggles the mind.

But they add that if this proves true, it might represent the earliest known use of biological warfare.

When the film containing the circuit is placed on biological tissue, it dissolves naturally.

Increased global travel and trade have exacerbated the biological pollution.

Perhaps a bigger obstacle is controlling biological developments to generate accurate calculations.

In the imaginary smallpox outbreak, a local biological attack ballooned into a national crisis.

Most of the data was gathered by microarrays, chips that can record lots of biological information.

She did so using a biological gizmo called a morpholino.

But there are dozens of so-called bioactive plastic additives that can affect proteins and other biological materials.

In wastewater pools they give bacteria more space to grow and thus allow biological contaminants to be consumed more quickly.

Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit.

If it works, it will be a good example of the value of thinking about biological problems from an evolutionary perspective.

The working draft of the human genome map will provide scientists with the biological foundation of human life.

Examining the biological and evolutionary causes of language is a respectable endeavour, so why not apply the same approach to.

The deep seabed was once considered a biological desert.

Cultural evolution clearly happens, but it's difficult to study with the formal rigor of biological evolution.

Every time a biological age is swept aside, a few creatures remain.

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World English Dictionary

biological or biologic (ˌbaɪəˈlɒdʒɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to biology
2.	(of a detergent) containing enzymes said to be capable of removing stains of organic origin from items to be washed

—n
3.	(usually plural) a drug, such as a vaccine, that is derived from a living organism

biologic or biologic

—*adj*

—n

bio'logically or biologic

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

biological

1859, from biology + -ical. Biological clock attested from 1955; not especially of human reproductive urges until c.1991.

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Medical Dictionary

biological bi·o·log·i·cal (bī'ə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl)
adj.

Of, relating to, caused by, or affecting life or living organisms.
Having to do with biology.
Related by blood, as in a child's biological parents.

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