What does biology mean?

Definitions for biology
baɪˈɒl ə dʒibi·ol·o·gy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. biology, biological sciencenoun

    the science that studies living organisms

  2. biologynoun

    characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms

    "the biology of viruses"

  3. biota, biologynoun

    all the plant and animal life of a particular region

Wiktionary

  1. biologynoun

    The study of all life or living matter

  2. biologynoun

    The living organisms of a particular region.

  3. biologynoun

    The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.

    the biology of the whale

  4. Etymology: ; a (modern coinage), with components derived from +. The term (rather, analogous terms) arose in various European languages c. 1800, but the term *βίολογία did not exist in Ancient Greek.

Wikipedia

  1. Biology

    Biology is a song performed by English-Irish all-female pop group Girls Aloud, taken from their third studio album Chemistry (2005). The song was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins and Higgins' production team Xenomania, and produced by Higgins and Xenomania. Composed of distinct sections, it avoids the verse-chorus form present in most contemporary pop music. "Biology" was released as a single in November 2005, ahead of the album's release. Following the disappointment of "Long Hot Summer", "Biology" returned Girls Aloud to the top five of the UK Singles Chart and became their tenth top ten hit. The music video, consisting only of group shots, witnesses Girls Aloud seamlessly move through various sequences while performing disjointed choreography. "Biology" was promoted through a number of live appearances and has since been performed on all of Girls Aloud's subsequent concert tours. The song, which includes a variety of styles, received widespread acclaim from contemporary music critics. Considered one of Girls Aloud's signature songs, The Guardian referred to "Biology" as "the best pop single of the last decade".

ChatGPT

  1. biology

    Biology is a branch of science that studies life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and interrelationships. This field encompasses various aspects such as cells, genes, evolution, microbiology, botany, zoology, ecology, and physiology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Biologynoun

    the science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Biology

    bī-ol′oj-i, n. the science that treats of life or of organised beings, which seeks to classify and generalise the multitude of phenomena presented by and peculiar to the living world.—adj. Biolog′ical.—adv. Biolog′ically.—n. Biolo′gist, one who studies biology. [Gr. bios, life, logos, a discourse.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Biology

    the science of animal life in a purely physical reference, or of life in organised bodies generally, including that of plants, in its varied forms and through its successive stages.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Biology

    One of the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES concerned with the origin, structure, development, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'biology' in Nouns Frequency: #2890

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of biology in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of biology in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of biology in a Sentence

  1. Jake Baum:

    The malaria parasite is one of the very ancient parasites, it's a very complicated creature : it can change its shape, it can change its biology, and that makes it much harder to develop new drugs and new therapeutics.

  2. Tony Perkins:

    The excruciating pain that unborn babies feel at five months is a matter of biology, not a matter of belief. It is time that Congress put an end to this barbaric horror.

  3. David Gortler:

    Going back to my Yale days when I was a lowly fellow inside of a molecular biology lab, I had to work with RNA myself, he tells NPR. And RNA is something which is very, very delicate and it can be inactivated, just like — we used to joke — just by looking at it the wrong way.

  4. Lawrence Young:

    To be honest, it's not particularly novel. What they have done, however, which is a bit interesting is introduce a new bell or a new whistle, if you like, in terms of the virus, which is to also have an effect on some of the supporting cells. So one of the things that's very exciting about current cancer biology is an increased understanding of the fact that while you've got cancer cells and tumor cells, which are important targets; actually there's a lot of supporting cells around the cancer that also get modified in that environment and start to mis-behave.

  5. Charles Darwin:

    The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

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