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nounthe science that studies living organisms
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nounall the plant and animal life of a particular region
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"the biology of viruses"nouncharacteristic life processes and phenomena of living organismstype of:
Definition that contains biology
- name identify as in botany or biology, for example
- family (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- order (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- class (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
- key identify as in botany or biology, for example
- cell (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
- type (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
- form (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- race (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
- growing (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level