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biology

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Word definitions for biology in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, from Greek bios "life" (see bio- ) + -logy . Suggested 1802 by German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837), and introduced as a scientific term that year in French by Lamarck.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms. Biology may also refer to: Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life , a college-level textbook compiled by Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart Biology , a textbook by Neil Campbell ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The study of all life or living matter.

Usage examples of biology.

He had a deep interest in physics, biology and genetics, ridiculed the idea that man had a special place in the cosmos, did not believe in life after death, individual destiny, or that the mind can exist independently of the body, preferring logical explanations for phenomena, based on experience.

They have also quickly seized on the degree of automation that bioinformatics has brought to biology.

He accepts the piece, a paper Crick delivered last fall to the Society for Experimental Biology, with the amalgam of trepidation and excitement of asking a pretty wallflower for a dance.

At any rate, both because of the clear trend in the recent history of biology and because there is not a shred of evidence to support it, I will not in these pages entertain any hypotheses on what used to be called the mind-body dualism, the idea that inhabiting the matter of the body is something made of quite different stuff, called mind.

In the case of einkorn wheat, for example, the main distinguishing trait between wild and cultivated varieties lies in the biology of seed dispersal.

Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.

Alys Vorpatril probably had even less grasp of the biology, Drou less still, and Kou was downright useless.

Ernst Mayr, the eminent historian of biology, says that Lamarck presented his view of evolution with far more courage than Darwin was to do fifty years later.

But though it marched under the banner of Cartesian-Newtonian mechanicism, that viewpoint could not permanently suffice for the needs of science--the time came when it was imperative to look upon physics as the study of the smaller organisms, and biology as the study of the larger organisms.

Lord Strongbow and his Imperial Dragoons were mutagenic alterations of human biology, and Colonel C.

After all, a professor, whether of philology, psychology, biology, or any other ology, is hardly the kind of person to whom we should appeal on such an elementary question as that of animal intelligence and language.

His pulse-beat quickened, the body not knowing it was useless, that biology no longer had the last word in mating.

As foretold by both the biology and philosophy tutors, she had gained new senses from her joining with Rool Tiazan.

This was uniformitarianism applied to biology as well as geology and, once again, it was nothing like Genesis.

If such men as Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, and Nietzsche had married and begotten sons, those sons, it is probable, would have contributed as much to philosophy as the sons and grandsons of Veit Bach contributed to music, or those of Erasmus Darwin to biology, or those of Henry Adams to politics, or those of Hamilcar Barcato the art of war.