Biological Sentence Examples
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.
AdvertisementDelage 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.
AdvertisementPalaeontology 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.
AdvertisementDuring 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.
AdvertisementIt 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.
When her step-mother passes away, Rosalinda encounters Fernando Jose, the son of the man her biological mother killed.
Unfortunately, married bliss only lasted a short time before Dixie's uncle (Palmer) and Tad's biological mother (Opal) began meddling.
The young man's world was rocked when they revealed that Victor was Adam's biological father.
The couple reunited a few years later after her relationship with Chris Stamp (Ryan Lavery's biological father) ended with Stamps' death.
Isobel - The season's penultimate episode brought Elena's biological mother to town.
Her actions changed the lives of not only Eric, but also Massimo Marone (Ridge's biological father) and Beth Logan (Eric's first love).
The biological tie between the women separated Jill's son Billy Abbott from Katherine's granddaughter Mackenzie, leaving the would-be lovers longing for each other for years.
Although Neil's brother Malcolm was Lily's biological father, it was Neil who raised her and Neil whom she considered her father.
Baby daddy drama, however, kept Jack and Billy on their toes while Ashley coped with the revelation that she was the product of her mother’s affair and not the biological daughter of John Abbott.
Though the storyline played out in the 1980s, Ashley and Jack never revealed that biological truth to their father.
Shaken by the emotions Maryann dragged out of him, Sam went looking for his biological family in season three.
She has three adopted children - Maddox, Zahara and Pax - and three biological children - Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox - with Brad Pitt.
It's also the astrological sign for Venus and the biological symbol for the female gender.
The Albuquerque Biological Park is gorgeous year round, however in December it turns into an illuminated winter wonderland with countless holiday lights designed to fit a myriad of themes.
Among these studies is a review done by the Institute of Medicine, which revisited published and unpublished studies on possible biological factors that could indicate that vaccinations may cause autism.
The splinter organization seeks to encourage the development and use of biological treatments.
The conditions develop from a combination of environmental and biological factors.
These compounds are said to influence particular biological functions of the body.
Caloric energy is required for all of your biological processes such as thinking, breathing and pumping blood through your body.
Eades. Dr. Harris suggests mimicking the evolutionary biological milieu by avoiding processed foods and instead eating plant and animal foods in as close to their natural states as possible.
A list of its birds, with some notes, bibliographical and biological, has been given as an Appendix to Baring-Gould's Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas (8vo, 1862); and Shepherd's North-west Peninsula of Iceland (8vo, 1867) recounts a somewhat profitless expedition made thither expressly for ornithological objects.
It will be seen that from the biological standpoint there fall under the stricter definition those hereditary modes of behaviour which are analogous to hereditary forms of structure; and that a sharp line of distinction is drawn between the behaviour which is thus rendered definite through heredity, and the behaviour the distinguishing characteristics of which are acquired in the course of individual life.
The group of instincts which we class as imitative (and they afford only the foundations on which intelligent imitation is based) are of biological value chiefly, if not solely, in those species which form larger or smaller communities.
The existence of sulphuretted hydrogen in great quantities below loo fathoms, the extensive chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate, the stagnant nature of its deep waters, and the absence of deep-sea life are conditions which make it impossible to discuss it along with the physical and biological conditions of the Mediterranean proper.
In connexion with the university is a botanical garden; with the national sanitary service, a biological laboratory, and special services for small-pox, glanders and yellow fever.
Pop. (1905), 3735 It has a palace built about 1630 and now converted into a cadet school, a gymnasium and a biological station.
A peculiar feature in the behaviour of the parasites, which is most probably caused by unfavourable biological conditions -in the host, is that known as agglomeration.
Such is the great mind of Aristotle manifested in the large map of learning, by which we have now to determine the order of his extant philosophical writings, with a view to studying them in their real order, which is neither chronological nor traditional, but philosophical and scientific. Turning over the pages of the Berlin edition, but passing over works which are perhaps spurious, we should put first and foremost speculative philosophy, and therein the primary philosophy of his Metaphysics (980 a 211093 b 29); then the secondary philosophy of his Physics, followed by his other physical works, general and biological, including among the latter the Historia Animalium as preparatory to the De Partibus Animalium, and the De Anima and Parva Naturalia, which he called " physical " but we call " psychological" (184 a 10-967 b 27); next, the practical philosophy of the Ethics, including the Eudemian Ethics and the Magna Moralia as earlier and the Nicomachean Ethics as later (1094-124 9 b 25), and of the Politics (1252-1342), with the addition of the newly discovered Athenian Constitution as ancillary to it; finally, the productive science, or art, of the Rhetoric, including the earlier Rhetoric to Alexander and the later Rhetorical Art, and of the Poetics, which was unfinished (1354-end).
The book-lice are familiar wingless insects, often found in houses running about among old papers and neglected biological collections.
He was also a diligent and skilful observer, and busied himself not only with astronomical subjects, such as the double stars, the satellites of Jupiter and the measurement of the polar and equatorial diameters of the sun, but also with biological studies of the circulation of the sap in plants, the fructification of plants, infusoria, &c.
As reproduction is a general biological phenomenon, its manifestations should be dealt with simultaneously in the case of animals and plants, but many of the special details differ so much that it is practically convenient to make two headings.
He was political director of the Siecle, and president of the French Colonization Society, and wrote, besides the books already mentioned, various works on political and biological questions.
The terms biologic forms, biological species, physiological species, physiological races, specialized forms have all been applied to these; perhaps the term biologic forms is the most satisfactory.
It is clear, however, that through Ray's work in the 17th century the common biological application of species became fixed much in its modern form, as denoting a group of animals or plants capable of interbreeding, and although not necessarily quite identical, with marked common characters.
An observatory and biological station are maintained.
It arises from a general awakening to the fact that the growth of our psychological and biological knowledge must profoundly transform the traditional epistemology.
The theory of chance was applied to the study of human variation by Quetelet; but the most important applications of this theory to biological problems are due in the first instance to Francis Galton, who used the theory of correlation in describing the relation between the deviation of one character in an animal body from the mean proper to its race and that of a second character in the same body (correlation as commonly understood), or between deviation of a parent from the mean of its generation and deviation of offspring from the mean of the following generation (inheritance).
The occurrence of anchovies in the English Channel has been carefully studied at the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth.
In the above, and in other respects also, a survey of the history of Palestine suggests the necessity of modifying that " biological " treatment of the development of thought which pays insufficient attention to the persistence of the representatives of different stages by the side of or after the disappearance of the higher stages; see I.
It would be impracticable to draw general conclusions as to the physical and biological conditions of the Antarctic regions until the researches of all the expeditions had been published in a comparable form.
But the divorce of science of nature from mathematics, the failure of biological inquiry to reach so elementary a conception as that of the nerves, the absence of chemistry from the circle of the sciences, disappointed the promise of the dawn and the relative achievement of the noon-day.
Although designed especially for advanced theological studies, it comprises a School of the Sacred Sciences, a School of Philosophy, a School of Letters, a School of Physical Sciences, a School of Biological Sciences, a School of Social Sciences, a School of Jurisprudence, a School of Law and a School of Technological Sciences.
In comparative morphology it provides many illustrations of important biological principles (such, for example, as substitution and change of function of organs), and throws new light upon, or at least points the way to new ideas of, the primitive relations of different organic systems in respect of their function and topography.
Even before the appearance of Sidgwick's book utilitarianism had entered upon its third or evolutional phase, in which principles borrowed from biological science make their entrance into moral philosophy.
This is mainly occupied by Djurgarden (the deer-park), a beautiful park containing the buildings of the northern museum, a collection of Scandinavian costumes and domestic and agricultural utensils, and a biological museum housed in a wooden building imitating the early Norwegian timber churches (stavekirke).
Experiments with labelled plaice, carried out in 1904 by the Marine Biological Association, showed that small plaice transplanted to the Dogger Bank in spring grew three times as rapidly as those on the inshore grounds, and the same result, with insignificant variations, has been obtained by similar experiments in each succeeding year.
The hatching of eggs, whether of fresh-water or salt-water fishes, presents no serious difficulties, if suitable apparatus is employed; but the rearing of fry to an advanced stage, without serious losses, is less easy, and in the case of sea-fishes with pelagic eggs, the larvae of which are exceedingly small and tender, is still an unsolved problem, although recent work, carried out at the Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, is at least promising.
These forms are termed by Fischer Metatrophic, because they require various kinds of organic materials obtained from the dead remains of other organisms or from the surfaces of their bodies, and can utilize and decompose them in various ways (Polytrophic) or, if monotrophic, are at least unable to work them up. The true parasites - obligate parasites of de Bary - are placed by Fischer in a third biological group, Paratrophic bacteria, to mark the importance of their mode of life in the interior of living organisms where they live and multiply in the blood, juices or tissues.
The full description of a particular bacterium implies an account not only of its microscopical characters, but also of its growth characters in various culture media, its biological properties, and the effects produced in animals by inoculation.
The production of antitoxin is one of the most striking facts of biological science, and two important questions with regard to it must next be considered, viz.
The new impulse given to biological research by the publication of the Origin of Species bore fruit in Fritz Muller's Filr Darwin, in which an attempt was made to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of the class.
It is the same with the other sciences - especially the biological division, where the doctrine of evolution has induced an attitude of mind which is distinctly historical.
The sloth, armadillo, opossum, skunk and a species of fox complete the list of the more common quadrupeds so far as known, though it is certain that a careful biological survey would discover many others.
The museum contains a beautiful Maori house of carved woodwork, and biological collections.
In more recent times the controversy has been concerned either with the attempted proof of determinism by the advocates of psychological Hedonism, an attempt which at the present time is generally admitted to have failed; or with the new biological knowledge concerning the influence of heredity and environment in its bearing upon the development of character and the possibility of freedom.
The great advance of biological knowledge in recent times though it has in no sense created a new problem (men have always been aware of the importance of racial or hereditary physical qualities in their influence upon human conduct) has certainly rendered the existence of complete individual freedom (in the sense in which it was advocated by older libertarians) in the highest degree unlikely.
There are, nevertheless, serious difficulties involved in the supposition that the changes in the brain with which physiology and the biological sciences deal can be satisfactorily explained by the mechanical and mathematical conceptions common to all these sciences, or, indeed, that any of these organic changes is susceptible in the last resort of explanation derived from purely material premises.
But the attempt not only to treat ethics scientifically, but actually to subordinate the principles of conduct to the principles of existing biological science or group of sciences biological in character, was reserved for postDarwinian moral philosophers.
Spencer looked to ideas derived from the biological sciences to provide a solution of all the enigmas of morality, as of most other departments of life; and he conceived it " to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness."
It is frequently impossible to discover whether he wishes by an appeal to evolutionary principles to reinforce the sanctions and emphasize the absolute character of the traditional morality which in the main he accepts without question from the current opinions about conduct of his age, or whether he wishes to discredit and disprove the validity of that morality in order to substitute by the aid of the biological sciences a new ethical code.
Nor is his attempt to construct a scientific criterion out of data derived from the biological sciences productive of satisfactory results.
The legitimate inference which should follow would be the denial of the validity of those moral laws which have hitherto been regarded as absolute in character, and the substitution for all customary moral terms of an entirely new set based upon biological considerations.
His investigations must embrace not only the comparative morphology and anatomy of fossil plants, but also their distribution over the earth's surface at different periods - a part of the subject which, besides its direct biological interest, has obvious bearings on ancient climatology and geography.
Moreover, while Celebes has species which are peculiar to itself and one other of the islands just mentioned, it has none which it shares exclusively with Borneo, and thus the importance of the Macassar Strait as a biological division is indicated.
Having a biological child wasn't his only reason for proposing a surrogacy pregnancy.
It might be their last chance to have a biological child.
Maybe that was why having a biological child was so important to him.
In the same way, Grandma and Grandpa Reynolds were related because they were Destiny's biological grandparents.
Carmen glanced at Señor Medena, who was beaming as if they were his children... or as if they were his biological grandchildren.
It might be more an obsession about biological kin.
She was hung up on the biological issue – insisting that if they were patient, God would work miracles and they would have a child, as her parents had.
She could have a biological child.
Alex had endured a lot of embarrassment because of the relationship between his mother and biological father – and now this.
By doing this they are protecting natural populations in the forest, sustaining biological diversity in vivo.
Page 7 PREV PAGE TOP OF DOC Biological weapons are becoming easier for state and nonstate actors to develop as biological technologies proliferate.
Thus in regions where there is strong horizontal advection our 1-d model can not hope to reproduce the patterns in biological activity.
We suspect that these refurbished trainer aircraft have been modified for delivery of chemical or, more likely, biological warfare agents.
Fine hair can be removed by gentle agitation and decanting, before leaving a further 4 hours or so in some biological detergent.
An important biological marker for monitoring residual disease is the promyelocytic retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML-RARalpha) fusion transcript.
See also biological filtration and ion exchange for methods to remove ammonia from the water.
Biological production of methane up to now was considered only to occur under strictly anaerobic conditions.
This approach can also be used to automatically test biological genome annotations.
Harvard biological anthropologist, Richard Wrangham, believes that humanity may have been launched by an ape learning to cook.
Dr. Charlotte Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Bradford.
Howard Bloom (The Lucifer principle) talks about the coming biological apocalypse.
Current Status Biological status lowland beech and yew woodland spans a variety of distinctive vegetation types reflecting differences in soil and topographical conditions.
Such interests are common to most human beings, and are functions of the fact that human beings are purely biological creatures.
Amazing how often one finds non-trained biologists giving their point of view about the strictly biological side of things.
We believe North Korea has active CW and BW programs and probably has chemical and possibly biological weapons ready for use.
It is not biological or ' scientific ' racism.
Is it possible to have an exclusively biological theory of human nature?
Freshwater Ecology (GCSE and A-Level) A number of stream sites are studied using biological, chemical and environmental sampling techniques.
It aims to synthesize 'any and all biological phenomena, from viral self-assembly to the evolution of the entire biosphere ' .
Crystal is thrust into a past ruled by superstition, then catapulted into a future devastated by biological weapons.
Be exposed to any harmful chemical, physical or biological substances.
A study of young chimpanzees living in the wild might explain the biological reason why infant girls tend to learn faster than infant boys.
Numerous chemical and biological phenomena are modeled by non-linear ODE's, for example chemical reactions and voltage clamped nerve cells.
Scared that her biological clock is going tick tick tick boom.
Very few analytic models require that these links be defined as biological links, as is required to legitimately calculate inbreeding coefficients.
It is intended for those professionals who are designing and building biological containment Level 3 laboratories for the MRC or Imperial College.
These have evolved from learning models to large population settings and ultimately converged on biological concepts.
Biological control can include choosing resistant turf grass cultivars or using soil bacteria to help improve the turf grasses ' health.
However, I do not believe in biological determinism.
In biological systems the reference values are often encoded genetically, in the binding constants of proteins for their allosteric effectors.
Biological effects The initial report describing the phenomenon of calcium efflux was published in 1975.
So do other biological processes, such as the voltages in hearts detected using electrocardiographs.
As we enter a post-genomics era, this Section plans to be at the leading edge of biological discovery.
One of the earliest uses of biological weapons occurred in the 6th century BC when the Assyrians poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot.
If as a society we embrace biological eugenics, then it's only fair that society bears the danger.
The current rate at which human DNA is being updated by biological evolution is about one bit a year.
For biological systems, sub 300 nm laser excitation sources would be of great benefit, particularly to protein scientists.
Gavin's brother Star, meanwhile, says " He actually seemed more fatherly than like our biological father.
Concentrated filtrates were also assayed for biological activity on radish.
Who knows, maybe the latest wave of freshers ' flu is the product of a biological weapons experiment?
Rudolf guides Santa's sleigh with the biological aberration of a red, glowing nose capable of penetrating thick fog?
The aim is to ensure that the Rowett remains at the international forefront of biological research.
Last year, SARS gave several countries a small foretaste of what a biological or chemical attack might be like.
A Multidisciplinary Institute, encompassing social, psychological and biological gerontology.
The time taken to reduce the concentration of a substance in the body to 50% is known as its biological half-life.
This biological activity produces a humus sludge which settles out in special humus tanks.
This would eventually cause the polar ice caps to melt, and thus generate an environment in which biological life could be sustained.
The biological sample taken at the test site provides an Observed Fauna from which biotic indices are also calculated.
The biological inoculants tended to have contrasting effects on silage total fatty acid compared with the other additives.
Despite this, considerable indirect evidence suggests that biological kinship plays an important role in altruistic behavior.
Laminin receptors The distinct biological activities of laminin receptors The distinct biological activities of laminins can also depend on the repertoire of laminin receptors expressed by the specific cell type involved.
Essentially biological liposuction works because it is possible to trick the immune defenses into thinking that the fat cells are appropriate targets for elimination.
We get none of the biological absurdities of abduction lore, no switching off of witnesses, no mind rays.
Apoptosis is an important biological factor in low-grade lymphomas, and NO is able to prevent apoptosis.
The disk is made up of a large number of biological macromolecules.
The basic individual protection against a biological agent attack is the wearing of the protective mask with hood attached.
The success with control of the hibiscus mealybug has served to sensitize a wide spectrum of the public about biological control.
Also analysis using biological reagents is an interest, as in the development of quartz crystal microbalance technology.
Cancer bioinformatics aims to integrate molecular, biological and clinical knowledge about cancer with analytic methods from bioinformatics.
All living organisms consist of cells; spherical aggregates of biological molecules surrounded by a thin membrane.
Nature has developed biological nanotechnology for billions of years of evolution.
What do naturalists want out of a centralized biological resource?
It then went through biological treatment, which reduced the biological oxygen demand and ammoniacal nitrogen.
The opening chapter summarizes the case, including a much appreciated explanation of how biological nitrogen fixation actually works, at a simple level.
The Group has established common export controls for chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation purposes.
This asserts the US ' right to use nuclear weapons pre-emptively to stop states from acquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
Additionally there are observations over at least 20 years of basic biological oceanography.
These were the recycling of animal waste, biological medicinal products, research, and the use of ruminant offal in baby food.
The biological significance of loop formation and RNA synthesis in heterochromatic band loops in growing oocytes is briefly discussed.
His research interests include organic, inorganic and biological chemistry.
The demand for fathers ' rights is not only related to the obligations of biological paternity.
Pattern formation is a wide-ranging subject encompassing areas from fluid mechanics to solid-state physics, and from chemical to biological systems.
Climate models include as many physical, chemical and biological processes as possible.
We are living in an age of biological Platonism.
The project aims to compare the biological activity of conventional and cross-linked polyethylene using the rat subcutaneous air pouch in vivo model.
The spokesman said U.N. weapons inspectors affirmed that Iraq no longer possessed biological weapons or any other banned weapons.
Do they just ignore the extreme hunger pains or do they just have a biological predisposition to enjoy famine.
It is a type of protein, called a protease, which acts like a pair of biological scissors to break down other proteins.
Real science takes on the myths of biological psychiatry.
We have a certain biological reciprocity with plants, don't we?
However you seem to be unwilling to let go of biological reductionism.
The logic of biological disarmament requires an absolute renunciation of biological warfare.
The residue from the castor bean pulp can be used in the production of the biological agent ricin " .
Image analysis, modeling skills, and experience with biological samples will be an advantage.
A proper understanding of global change requires a fusion of the ' old ' academic disciplines and the integration of physical and biological sciences.
Only some 0.0001 per cent of the deep seafloor has been subject to biological investigations.
Computer simulations in this field provide biological insights, and also have spinoffs such as the realistic flock of bats in Cliffhanger.
The European Corn Borer is traditionally controlled using chemical or biological insecticide sprays which are applied to the outside of the plant.
Hence, a degree in the Biological Sciences is an excellent springboard to a successful future career in a wide range of fields.
It possesses the greatest stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and the most advanced and extensive research in mass destruction weaponry in the world.
Eleven PhD studentships had been allocated to soils by the Agri-Food and Engineering and Biological Sciences Committees.
The Faculty of Biological Sciences has been awarded 3 vacation studentships by the BBSRC for 2006.
We have a project looking at the use of biological systems to produce surfactant.
Click Here Further Details The Internet Biodiversity Service This internet Biodiversity service gives you access to information about biological systematics, Ecology and Evolution.
Species are the smallest unit of biological taxonomy, and are grouped together with similar species to form a genus.
Jeff then followed with a review of the way in which molecular biological techniques are rapidly becoming tools of patient management.
We also cross the Antarctic Convergence, a biological barrier where cold polar waters sink beneath the warmer waters of the more Temperate Zones.
However, reliable biological assays for measurement of immune function remain slow and cumbersome (e.g. lymphocyte proliferation by uptake of tritiated thymidine ).
Information coming from this project suggests ways in which biological energy transduction systems might have evolved in primitive life.
The Effects of Anthrax In 1941 the Russians developed tularemia as a biological weapon.
We are in the realm of human volition, not biological reflex.
Susan Lambert's film tells us above all about the science behind biological warfare.
Biological weapons can be delivered in a missile warhead or in the form of a bomb.
In my opinion, the problem of defense against biological weapons is mostly a medical problem.
Biological detergents as well as perfumes; optical whiteners and other ingredients in ordinary washing detergents may cause skin irritation.
Biodiversity is the word coined by the zoologist E. O. Wilson to summarize the phrase biological diversity.
The term ' biodiversity ' was coined by the American zoologist Edward O. Wilson and is an abbreviation of ' biological diversity ' .
Besides recitation and residence halls, it has the Lawrence Hall Library (1846), containing (1910) 68,000 volumes, the Thompson Memorial Chapel (1904), the Lasell Gymnasium (1886), an infirmary (1895), the Hopkins Observatory (1837) and the Field Memorial Observatory (1882), the Thompson Chemical Laboratory (1892), the Thompson Biological Laboratory (1893) and the Thompson Physical Laboratory (1893).
We must content ourselves by referring to the progress of physical (including chemical) theory, which has led to the great generalization of the conservation of energy; to the discovery of the fundamental chemical identity of the matter of our planet and of other celestial bodies, and of the chemical relations of organic and inorganic bodies; to the advance of astronomical speculation respecting the origin of the solar system, &c.; to the growth of the science of geology which has necessitated the conception of vast and unimaginable periods of time in the past history of our globe, and to the rapid march of the biological sciences which has made us familiar with the simplest types and elements of organism; finally, to the development of the science of anthropology (including comparative psychology, philology, &c.), and to the vast extension and improvement of all branches of historical study.
In the 19th century the doctrine of evolution received new biological contents and became transformed from a vague, partly metaphysical theory to the dominant modern conception.
In one sense, the accumulation of humus and peat is a biological factor, as it is related to the work of organisms in the soil; but the occurrence or otherwise of these organisms in the soil is probably related to definite edaphic and climatic conditions.
They include the biological nature of the organism and its physical environment, the latter involving conditions in which geographical elements, direct or indirect, preponderate.
He examined the yeasts under the microscope, and at once saw that the globules from the sound beer were nearly spherical, whilst those from the sour beer were elongated; and this led him to a discovery, the consequences of which have revolutionized chemical as well as biological science, inasmuch as it was the beginning of that wonderful series of experimental researches in which he proved conclusively that the notion of spontaneous generation is a chimera.
The study of comparative pathology, yet in an inchoate stage, and of embryology, illuminated and enlarged biological conceptions, both normal and abnormal; and the ens reale subsistens in corpore disappeared for ever - at any rate from physiology and medicine.
There is at least one biological speculation of astounding audacity, that could be examined in nothing less than a treatise.
The received a great impetus from the enthusiasm of the great Amerieastern part of the North Atlantic has been the scene of many can oceanographer Captain Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N., expeditions, often purely biological in their purpose, amongst who directed the whole impetuous strength of his character to which there may be mentioned the cruises of the " Travailleur " the task of compelling the silent depths of the ocean to tell their and " Talisman " under Professor Milne-Edwards in 1880-1883, tale.
Boyd Dawkins and Brinton, that the French cave man came hither by way of Iceland; or with Keane, that two subvarieties, the long-headed Eskimo-Botocudo type and the Mexican roundheaded type, prior to all cultural developments, reached the New World, one by Iceland, the other by Bering Sea; or that Malayoid wanderers were stranded on the coast of South America; or that no breach of continuity has occurred since first the march of tribes began this way - ethnologists agree that the aborigines of the western came from the eastern hemisphere,and there is lacking any biological evidence of Caucasoid or Negroid blood flowing in the veins of Americans before the invasions of historic times.
In 1892 a biological institute, with a marine museum and aquarium (1goo) attached, was opened.
This the present writer is inclined to doubt, considering that he has received examples of the normal Amblystoma tigrinum from various parts of Mexico, and that Alfred Duges has described an Amblystoma from mountains near Mexico City; at the same time he feels very suspicious of the various statements to that effect which have appeared in so many works, and rather disposed to make light of the ingenious theories launched by biological speculators who have never set foot in Mexico, especially Weismann's picture of the dismal condition of the salt-incrusted surroundings which were supposed to have hemmed in the axolotl - the brackish Lago de Texcoco, the largest of the lakes near Mexico, being evidently in the philosopher's mind.
The Zoological Station or Aquarium has a very fine biological library.
And the actual criteria of conduct derived from biological considerations are almost ludicrously inadequate.
Treatment can include Surgery Radiotherapy Chemotherapy Biological therapies Surgery Surgery is the main treatment for cancer of the small bowel.
We have a certain biological reciprocity with plants, do n't we?
It was thought that Iraq could use chemical or biological weapons on Israel, which might then retaliate with nuclear weapons.
Not all rotenone treatments have been successful, and such drastic treatment is only possible in short rivers with favorable biological and geographical conditions.
Genes are segments of DNA that regulate biological activity.
Minerals and trace elements serve as vital catalysts for the biological reactions that take place within the body.
Currently, Taiwan is not a signatory nation to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The role of biological effects studies and the use of artificial substrata and sediments in marine pollution monitoring is also discussed.
We also cross the Antarctic Convergence, a biological barrier where cold polar waters sink beneath the warmer waters of the more temperate zones.
However, reliable biological assays for measurement of immune function remain slow and cumbersome (e.g. lymphocyte proliferation by uptake of tritiated thymidine).
Transition metal ions are often at the ' heart ' of many biological catalysts.
Current tufa formation at Nash Brook appears to reflect the interaction of hydrological and biological controls.
The whiting stock is also outside safe biological limits and a recovery plan with zero catch rate proposed.
Beyond its geological significance, the site is a biological wonderland of alien marine life.
The term ' biodiversity ' was coined by the American zoologist Edward O. Wilson and is an abbreviation of ' biological diversity '.
We're attempting to artifically mimic the exact biological processes that the abalone exhibits.
We are closely observing both the biological and the abiological effects of this method.
It is essential to maintain the homeostasis between the body's biological processes.
Homeostasis can be defined as the way in which biological systems maintain internal stability.
The ribosome is the site of biological protein synthesis in cells.
As more and more women put off having children until their thirties and even forties, the decision about how many children a couple should have is sometimes made based on the time factor and mom's biological ticking clock.
Married couples must have no more than two biological children living at home when applying for an adoption.
Basically a holistic cat food recipe would be one that kept in mind the unique biological needs of your cat.
Some parasites may belong to the same biological family or genus.
The top rated cat food recognizes the specific biological characteristics of cats and their nutritional needs.
If the man being tested is, in fact, the biological father, then the Court will order him to make child support payments until the child in question reaches the age of majority.
In other words, the biological or adoptive parents of the children involved must work out an agreement to where the children have the opportunity to spend time with both parents.
Carbon naturally cycles through all of these areas seasonally because of different chemical, biological, geological and physical processes.
The fuel comes from recently dead biological material, such as plants.
Anything that churns out harmful smoke, toxins, chemicals, or biological substances into the air is considered a pollutant.
While desertification can be natural, rapid desertification is likely a result of human activity that has changed the biological productivity of an area.
Air pollution is caused by the introduction of foreign matters, including chemicals or biological materials, into the atmosphere that are harmful to humans, animals and plant life.
Water pollution scientists will check the levels of naturally occurring bacteria and other biological elements in water, as well as test for disease-causing pathogens in the water.
Contamination of the water by chemical and biological agents is present in every water system in the world to some degree; however, water pollution is worse in high-population areas.
Leavening comes in several varieties mechanical, biological, and Chemical.
Of course stress isn't just physical and biological, there's a big emotional component to feeling stressed out.
The StressEraser is a small and portable device that helps stress sufferers to manage stress by recognizing that there is a biological reason behind stress called ergotropic tuning.
This is reported to be the biological process by which the nerves in the body react to stress.
Eventually, the individual learns to associate the physiological and biological changes in the body that take place under a false or real danger and the learned behavior repeatedly results in a panic attack.
This includes marked changes in the biological, cognitive, and emotional elements in your life.
Its onset is triggered by a mix of biological and environmental factors.
On a biological level, the illness is caused by imbalances in brain chemicals and hormones.
Medicine takes care of the biological roots of the illness while therapy helps you discover and face the underlying issues that may have triggered the episode.
Every living cell needs enzymes to complete its biological function.
For example, they will only provide a marriage license to a biological male and a biological female.
Experts can't be certain what causes depression, but most mental health professionals believe the condition is the result of biological, psychological, and environmental factors.
I know because my biological father died of throat cancer and emphysema.
However, this may be due to biological factors as well as the influence of personality.
It is believed, however, that biological, developmental, genetic and sociocultural factors all probably play some role.
Vernon Winfrey was found to not be her biological father.
This woman, Patricia, had figured out a few years earlier that her biological mother was Vernita Lee but kept it hidden, not even going to the press.
Amazingly, neither was raised by both biological parents.
Five years later, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are still happily married and living in Nashville, Tennessee, with their two biological daughters, Sunday and Faith, the latter of whom was conceived via a surrogate.
Though Shiloh is their first biological child together, Angelina adopted Maddox, 5, from Cambodia, and Zahara, 2, from Ethiopia.
Pitt and Jolie have six children, three adopted and three biological.
This will be the first biological child for both Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.
Hmmm, do we hear someone's male biological clock ticking?
Biological mother of two of Michael Jackson's children, Debbie Rowe, is suing over allegations that she is planning on fighting the Jackson family for custody of her two children.
The student must major in food science, chemical science, biological science, or a related area and have past work or personal experience that exhibits involvement in confectionary technology.
Students with currently enrolled siblings, biological or legally adopted, are eligible for the Sibling Discount.
Bioengineering, also referred to as biotechnological engineering or biological engineering, involves the application of engineering principles in the fields of healthcare and biology.
This type of engineering involves the use of biological substances and the application of engineering principles to the fields of protein chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, cytology, pharmacology, microbiology and biochemistry.
Aromatherapy is the study of employing biological and energy-based therapies through the use of essential oils.
It covers biological weapons, terrorist attacks, natural disasters and leadership skills.
The course focuses on the continuing education of K-12 science teachers in order to enhance their knowledge of the biological sciences.
Biological insect controls use different species of insect or other naturally occurring organisms to control others.
It regulates your biological clock and sleep-wake cycle.
Instead of simply bestowing his entire estate onto you, he has given all the riches to his ungrateful biological son, Lord Boras.
A laboratory has been burned down, destroying evidence of a new biological weapon someone was creating.
Fortunately, Pinotage wines lean more towards its biological Pinot Noir heritage rather than its Cinsault genes and make for good medium-bodied wines that match with food very well.
Biological therapy or immunotherapy is a mode of treatment in which the body's own immune system is harnessed to fight the cancer.
As the child enters adolescence, biological, cognitive, and emotional changes transform the parent-child relationship.
Adolescence-A period of life in which the biological and psychosocial transition from childhood to adulthood occurs.
While the precise cause of the disease is not known, anorexia is a disorder that results from the interaction of cultural and interpersonal as well as biological factors.
Girls whose biological mothers or sisters have or have had anorexia nervosa appear to be at increased risk of developing the disorder.
It would seem that biological and genetic factors may make certain individuals pre-disposed to depressive disorders, but environmental circumstances often may trigger the disorder as well.
The individual who is not the biological parent of the child or children is referred to as the stepparent.
For parents, a stepfamily can provide social support for new couples and new, emotionally rewarding relationships with biological and stepchildren.
Children can be full-time or part-time members of a stepfamily, depending on the custody arrangement between the biological parents.
Stepfamilies must cope with outside influences and ongoing change due to issues with the other biological parent and family members.
Because in most divorces, primary custody is awarded to the biological mother, most stepfamilies involve stepfathers who become the full-time stepparent.
In rare cases, a biological father is awarded primary custody, and a stepmother can become a full-time stepparent.
For various reasons, society does not always view stepparents as having the same responsibilities as biological parents.
Nuclear family-The basic family unit, consisting of a father, a mother, and their biological children.
Biological and environmental factors that can cause mental retardation include genetics, prenatal illnesses and issues, childhood illnesses and injuries, and environmental factors.
Gender identity emerges by the age of two or three and is influenced by a combination of biological and sociological factors reinforced at puberty.
Aside from sex differences, other biological contrasts between males and females are already evident in childhood.
Gender identity disorder (GID)-A strong and lasting cross-gender identification and persistent discomfort with one's biological gender (sex) role.
Interestingly, humans are the only mammals whose breasts develop before they are needed to serve their biological purpose-breastfeeding.
The presence and estimated quantity of porphyrin and protoporphyrins in biological samples are easily detected using spectrofluorometric testing.
Many other children have lived in single-parent families for a time before their biological parent remarried, when they moved into a two-parent family with one biological parent and one stepparent.
The most common type of single-parent family is one that consists of a mother and her biological children.