noun
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A biological product.
adjective
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Of or relating to biology.
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Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
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(an error in NNES) Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
Examples of biological in a Sentence
He's not your biological father?
It was time to accept that they would never have biological children.
Alex was uneasy because he and his biological father had never seen eye to eye.
It won't make any difference to you whether they are adopted or biological - not in how much you love them or how you treat them.
In the Origin of Species, and in his other numerous and important contributions to the solution of the problem of biological evolution, Darwin confined himself to the discussion of the causes which have brought about the present condition of living matter, assuming such matter to have once come into existence.
Lister, F.R.S., who formed a larger biological and mineralogical collection.
Joao Barbosa Rodrigues has done some good work in botany, especially in the study of the palms of the Amazon, and Joao Baptista de Lacerda has made important biological investigations at the national museum of Rio de Janeiro.
Many of the young men and women, who were supposed to be qualifying as specialists in the various spheres of industrial and commercial enterprise, were in reality devoting their time to considering how human society in general, and Russian society in particular, could be reconstructed in accordance with the latest physiological, biological and sociological principles.
This method of intermittent sterilization originated with Tyndall, and it was an important contribution to biological science and industrial practice.
This principle he endeavoured to deduce from his knowledge of geology, in contrast to Lorenz Oken, who developed the same theory on biological grounds.
Delage has distinguished as multiplication those cases in which the new individual arises from a mass of cells which remain a part of the maternal tissues during differentiation, reserving the term reproduction for those cases in which the spore or cell which is the starting-point of the new individual begins by separating from the maternal tissues; but the distinction is inconvenient in practice and does not appear to carry with it any fundamental biological significance.
The area of biological knowledge which Darwin was the first to subject to scientific method and to render, as it were, contributory to the great stream formed by the union of the various branches, is that which relates to the breeding of animals and plants, their congenital variations, and the transmission and perpetuation of those variations.
It is proper, however, to point out at once how very complicated may be the relationships between oceanographical and strictly biological phenomena, though, of course, the latter are ultimately dependent on the former.
This branch of biological science may be called thremmatology (0Au,ua, " a thing bred ").
From the earliest times the shepherd, the farmer, the horticulturist, and the " fancier " had for practical purposes made themselves acquainted with a number of biological laws, and successfully applied them without exciting more than an occasional notice from the academic students of biology.
Palaeontology both borrows from and sheds light upon geology and other branches of the physical history of the earth, each of which, such as palaeogeography or palaeometeorology, is the more fascinating because of the large element of the unknown, the need for constructive imagination, the appeal to other branches of biological and physical investigation for supplementary evidence, and the necessity of constant comparison with the present aspects of nature.
The subject will be treated in its biological aspects, because the relations of palaeontology to historical and stratigraphic geology are more appropriately considered under the article Geology.
The absolute agreement in the results independently obtained by these various investigators, the interpretation of individual development as the guide to phyletic development, the demonstration of continuous genetic series, each mutation falling into its proper place and all showing a definite direction, constitute contributions to biological philosophy of the first importance, which have been little known or appreciated by zoologists because of their publication in monographs of very special character.
The concurrence of botanical (Hooker, 1847), zoological, and finally of palaeontological evidence for the reconstruction of the continent of Antarctica, is one of the greatest triumphs of biological investigation.
No complete study has ever been made of this fauna, but much has been, and is being done by the U.S. Biological Survey and Plant Industry Bureau.
During the period he spent at Miilhausen, Schatzenberger paid special attention to industrial chemistry, particularly in connexion with colouring matters, but he also worked at general and biological chemistry which subsequently occupied the greater part of his time.
Nevertheless, certain biological phenomena in fungi are especially pronounced, and of these the following require particular notice.
The university's biological station is on Winona Lake, Kosciusko county.
In addition, 50 percent of children under age 13 as of 2004 lived with one biological parent and the parent's partner.
It is taken from the purple flowering species of the Tabebuia avellanedae tree, which is thought to have the strongest biological and disease fighting properties.
It consists of a family of eight compounds, each with its own form and amount of vitamin E biological activity.
He becomes a shape shifter as part of the Quileute biological response to the vampires in their territory.
A general sense of our environment is biological in nature.
Your instincts are a basic biological function of self defense.
Normal and natural effects include children hoping and wishing that their biological parents would one day reunite.
By the time (most) women approach and pass thirty years of age, the biological drive to procreate is almost unbearable.
This is most likely due to the biological pull to look for a healthy woman with a high amount of progesterone in her system.
It is not known whether this phase exists because of an innate or biological phenomenon or because of a really successful marketing campaign by Disney!
While there are certainly many life circumstances that lead people to contemplate suicide, there are also natural biological imbalances and diseases of the brain that cause thoughts of suicide.
Egglesfield was hired as a replacement to Scott Kinworthy as Joshua Madden, the long-lost biological son of Erica Kane and had no problem getting the attention of AMC's female devotees.
Her son, Adam Chandler, Jr., is the biological son of Adam Chandler, Sr. (a former Erica Kane hubby) and she also shares a daughter named Kate with her true love Tad Martin.
A storyline in the 70s would reveal that Dr. Jeff Webber (Richard Dean Anderson) was his biological son.
Most recently, Michael Corinthos III (A.J.'s biological son) was shot in the head and remains in a vegetative state.
The reveal that Katherine was actually Jill's biological mother forced these women to confront their past, their present and eventually their future.
Eventually, it was revealed that the twins were actually the biological children of popular characters Tony and Marlena - but not for long!
When Katherine Chancellor discovered that Jill Foster Abbott, her longtime rival and nemesis, was her biological daughter, she suffered a stroke.
Ridge, although raised by Eric, is actually the biological child of Massimo Maroni, a storyline change that upset the balance of power on the show in 2002.
Rick and Bridget are Eric's biological children with former wife Brooke Logan.
Brooke originally thought that Ridge was Bridget's biological parent, but this was due to meddling with the paternity test.
She adopts another girl and christens her Dylan, keeping secret the death of her biological daughter.
Den found out about the affair between his biological son and adopted daughter and subsequently rejected both of them.
In the early part of the 21st century, Katherine suffered a stroke when she learned that Jill was her biological daughter.
Sierra is her biological daughter from her marriage to Jacobo Esteban, the now deceased ruler of the fictional island Montega.
Over the years she's also struggled with her previous life as Mary Ellen Walters when her biological brother and sister came to town.
Rosalinda is raised by a step-mother, because her biological mother is in prison for killing a man.