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Biology is the science which is concerned with the study of living things.
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biologist (biologists)
...biologists studying the fruit fly.
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2.
The ~ of a living thing is the way in which its body or cells behave.
The ~ of these diseases is terribly complicated.
...human ~.
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see also molecular ~