BIOLOGICAL


Meaning of BIOLOGICAL in English

1.

Biological is used to describe processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.

The living organisms somehow concentrated the minerals by ~ processes...

This is a natural ~ response.

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~ly

Much of our behaviour is ~ly determined...

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2.

Biological is used to describe activities concerned with the study of living things.

...the university’s school of ~ sciences.

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3.

Biological weapons and ~ warfare involve the use of bacteria or other living organisms in order to attack human beings, animals, or plants.

Such a war could result in the use of chemical and ~ weapons.

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4.

Biological pest control is the use of bacteria or other living organisms in order to destroy other organisms which are harmful to plants or crops.

...Jim Litsinger, a consultant on ~ control of agricultural pests.

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5.

A child’s ~ parents are the man and woman who caused him or her to be born, rather than other adults who look after him or her.

...foster parents for young teenagers whose ~ parents have rejected them.

= natural

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