adjective
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a religious/military/biological etc metaphor
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He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
a sexual/biological urge
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Most of us feel the biological urge to reproduce.
biological clock ticking
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career women who hear the biological clock ticking
biological clock
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career women who hear the biological clock ticking
biological diversity (= including many different types of plants and animals )
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North Carolina is an area of astonishing biological diversity.
biological evolution
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Every living creature has been formed by the slow process of biological evolution.
biological/germ warfare (= using dangerous bacteria or illnesses as a weapon )
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These bacteria might be used in biological warfare.
chemical/biological weapons (= weapons that use chemicals such as poisonous gases, or dangerous germs )
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Troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons.
sb's biological/natural parents
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Most children are reared by their natural parents.
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activity
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The biological activity of these compounds remains to be determined.
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Such structural analysis provides clues about the sites on the molecule responsible for its biological activity in the body.
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But quite a lot of biological activity takes place in the pre-filter mat too.
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Intellectual and biological activity are both part of the overall process by which an organism adapts to the environment and organizes experience.
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Centrophenoxine had the strongest biological activity , producing a mild stimulation of the central nervous system.
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Both peptides have essentially identical biological activities .
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For each total synthesis a brief introduction is given, outlining the biological activity and other syntheses of the target compound.
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Caulerpa is not very hardy, and sensitive to changes in the chemical and biological activity of a new set-up.
agent
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There are however two specific product types that have some value and are known, collectively, as biological agents .
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The front companies were liquidated or privatized, and most of the lethal or incapacitating chemical and biological agents were destroyed.
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The biological agents that can play a part in breaking down rocks include bacteria, algae and too tIers.
basis
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This certainly has a biological basis as well as a social one.
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Those who posit a purely biological basis for this phenomenon are ignoring the class or political element.
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However, most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis .
clock
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It's the men now, as often as not, who hear the biological clock ticking loudest.
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We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks .
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The way Max's biological clock is ticking, it's a wonder Emma didn't call out the bomb squad.
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Unlike mechanical clocks , which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
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The ticking of the biological clock .
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Of course, nature being unjust as ever, I have no biological clock of my own.
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You are an owl-and-lark couple, people whose biological clocks simply don't match.
control
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In classical biological control , a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence.
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If they did the biological control would fail.
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Ubiquitous and successful as they are, the owls could become significant agents of biological control .
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Nevertheless, many agrochemical companies are undertaking extensive research programmes on biological control .
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There is also considerable potential for the development of novel biological control agents by genetic engineering.
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Truly, Dolly has taken us into the age of biological control .
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Spray with a suitable insecticide or use biological control .
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Truly they will take humanity into the age of biological control .
determinism
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There may well have been, but an examination of those described shows the limitations of biological determinism .
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism .
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Surely their replacing biological determinism with social constructionism presents too limited a dialectic.
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Chomsky is committed to an axiom of biological determinism .
difference
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It can therefore be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities only to the extent that they are defined as such.
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We are much less likely to find biological differences between races, simply because the genetic distances among them are so small.
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It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such.
diversity
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The Amazonian rainforests make up one third of all rainforests and are vitally important in terms of biological diversity .
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The Spice of Life Human biological diversity is hardly a new concept.
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They are regions of huge biological diversity , a treasure chest of invaluable worth, representing 60 million years of evolution.
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The impact, Loucks believes, may permanently reduce the biological diversity of this extraordinary ecosystem.
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What all these tropical forests have in common, however, is their astonishing biological diversity .
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We can not save the world's biological diversity unless we nurture the human diversity that protects and develops it.
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Scientists interested in biological diversity , and the evolutionary reasons for it, already see it in that light.
evolution
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The forces which drive technological development have a close parallel in biological evolution .
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In terms of biological evolution , complex adaptive systems seek patterns and learn from their interactions with the environment.
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Inpart Marx say this task as paralleling what had been done by Darwin for biological evolution .
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Human cultures can change rapidly because cultural innovation is infinitely faster than biological evolution .
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Evolving software mimics biological evolution with collections of programs competing with each other to see which performs the task best.
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His approach has undoubtedly helped a lot of people to understand the complexities of biological evolution .
explanation
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Such anxieties are still informed by nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific genetic and biological explanations of racial difference and comprise distortion, fantasy and myth.
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Theories of socialization also tend to provide implicitly biological explanations of social relations other than gender.
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Generally, however, feminist psychologists try to avoid biological explanations .
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It is the credibility of this biological explanation which allows them to assimilate other female-male differences to it.
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But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations .
fact
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Nor are states of health and states of dependency automatically related to the biological facts of ageing.
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It looks as though here, too, the hypothesis does not account for all the biological facts .
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It also has a reputation for uncleanliness that is borne out by the biological facts .
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This statement will anger many well-meaning vegetarians and vegans, but they must face the biological facts .
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The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work.
factor
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Just how much is due to inherited characteristics, and how much to other biological factors or early childhood experiences is still uncertain.
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Researchers hope to find chemical or biological factors that protect some children against malaria.
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Furthermore, the biological factors which predispose certain individuals towards a depletion of these neurotransmitters have not yet been established.
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The biological factor is the length of time that the human child is dependent and helpless and in need of attention from parents.
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The relative importance of habit and biological factors in such circumstances is hard to decide.
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Thus, the effect of socio-economic factors may coalesce with the effect of biological factors.
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There are many ways in which biological factors may be implicated in depression.
family
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She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family.
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Clearly, many factors besides abortion result in children whose biological families are unable to rear them. 2.
father
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The two candidates for the role of biological father were both Black Panthers.
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My biological father is diagnosed as paranoid / schizophrenic.
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They were clearly biological fathers only - not practising parents.
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Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
filter
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Set up a biological filter and circulate your pondwater through it about once every two hours with a suitable pump.
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It can take up to 30 days, dependant on temperature for a biological filter to become established.
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In the first of several experiments, Ray pumped water through the device into the bottom of a pump-fed biological filter .
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Stocking too quickly leads to disease and deaths, as the biological filter can not cope with the load.
filtration
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The next chamber or chambers generally hold the main media, aimed at biological filtration .
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Foam media is also supplied in some units as the main source of biological filtration .
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Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle.
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It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place, and is then passed back on to the water.
function
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Despite the contrast in their biological functions , these cells show similarities in their phospholipid orientation.
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We have fulfilled our biological function .
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Polyunsaturated fatty acids have essential biological functions .
material
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This is where the internal surfaces in biological materials and reinforced plastics become important.
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The organic matter is extremely old and quite dissimilar to biological material .
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In short, fertilization enhanced neither the build-up of biological materials nor the capture of nutrients by it.
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In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.
need
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Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
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There is no biological need for each to have the same genetic code.&038;.
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Which suggests that the life patterns imposed on infants in fact derive from biological need .
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Primary reinforcers such as water and food satisfy biological needs .
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Nature allows some persons to pass through all the successive levels of biological growth and thereby attain their biological needs .
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There is no biological need for the father to be anywhere around when the baby is born and nurtured.
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And you may like to know that we have not neglected the infant's biological need to suckle.
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At first the growth of a child is dictated by biological needs .
organism
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Modern societies are therefore institutionally differentiated, on the analogy of biological organisms , from the relatively simple to the relatively complex.
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This background influenced all his thinking about man in society, for he never forgot that human beings were biological organisms .
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In the biochemical approach, enzymes obtained from biological organisms are used.
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Individual cells have to develop differently in order to make any biological organism .
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This brings us to another group of alleged animal rights which relate to its functioning as a biological organism .
parent
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It's now estimated that by 2010, children in stepfamilies will actually outnumber those living with two biological parents .
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The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
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Steven Lowe, Liverpool Who would be the biological parents of a human clone, and what legal ramifications would this have?
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Adopted children and their biological parents may suffer stress long after the adoption. 4.
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Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
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Nevertheless, I have as much of a need to hand my legacy on to some one as any biological parent .
problem
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An entire new world had opened to Celestine: how to use chemical insight and apply it to biological problems .
process
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Instead of growing up, I had, as it were, grown down, and thus reversed a natural biological process .
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Manufacturers will perceive natural biological processes as competitive and inspirational, and this will drive manufactured processes toward biological-type solutions.
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One wonders, then, what must be the effect of such an influx of fresh vitality upon biological processes ?
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Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
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This is true of many biological processes and no one level is intrinsically preferable to another.
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In this case, air stripping precedes a conventional biological process , while carbon adsorption is used as a final polishing step.
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This relationship between body temperature and the speed of biological processes applies throughout the animal kingdom.
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The widest possible implications must be considered when either sanctioning or preventing the application of a new biological process .
reason
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There are good biological reasons for why it is so difficult to produce drugs that will knock out viral infections.
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Piaget examined and rejected both the Darwinian and Lamarckian positions, which conclude that for biological reasons , wars are inevitable.
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Second, only 15 0 % of patients were ineligible for biological reasons , and only 3 6 % refused enrolment.
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But there are also biological reasons for its persistence.
research
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The Marie Curie Research Institute develops molecular biological research into the causes and treatment of cancer.
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Could biological research really refute the insights Freud formulated about mankind?
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Such a scheme has a factorial treatment structure and is very commonly used in biological research .
science
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Should one speak of biological science or sciences?
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Coming to the subject by way of the biological sciences , she stressed the value of biological principles applied to human geography.
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Darwin is loose on the shop floor, and industry has become a branch of the biological sciences .
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To those like me whose education concentrated on the physical rather than the biological sciences , the Nilsson film was a revelation.
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What is meant by science in this case is of course the physical sciences and to a lesser degree the biological sciences.
sense
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It was not a kinship group in any biological sense .
system
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Most biological systems have feedback mechanisms that help smooth out the little fluctuations that life throws at them.
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In biological systems , it is therefore necessary to distinguish between osmotically active and osmotically inactive particles.
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This is just one example of the many that could be quoted to emphasize the importance of shape in biological systems .
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Some biological systems are so organized that they remain in the game of life.
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Many of the essays look at the reasons why chirality is of interest and the relationship to biological systems .
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Corresponding to this economics of adaptability components there is an economics of stability and instability in biological systems .
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Because of its extensive tissue localisation, its effects on a variety of biological systems has been assessed.
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Official sketches show a small warren of rooms, lit by artificial lights and stuffed with compact biological systems .
theory
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Unlike biological theories , socialization accounts apply equally to women and men.
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Wilson's position makes sense of a great deal in the history of general biological theory before and since 1900.
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That Darwin's ideas could have such manifold influence throughout the entire structure of modern biological theory should not now be surprising.
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Some feminist psychologists have even developed a kind of biological egalitarianism as a corrective to psychology's male-oriented biological theories .
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Some biological theories are sufficiently affected by increasing demands for social relevance to tackle social differences.
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These patterns are usually less clear and testable than those described in overtly biological theories .
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He never had another fundamentally novel idea in general biological theory .
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Agricultural institutions also began to play a major role in applying biological theory to the problems of agriculture.
warfare
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He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
weapon
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The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons .
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More successful than any of these methods, however, looks to be a new biological weapon , a nematode.
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We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons , while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
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The chances of this working are close to zero, leaving organic farmers without their biological weapon of last resort.
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We will in addition work for a global ban on chemical and biological weapons and stronger controls to prevent proliferation of ballistic missiles.
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Mubarak's initiative for a Middle East free from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons was also welcomed.
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Regional conflicts - along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - present growing dangers.
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biological studies
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Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them.
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He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
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In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species.
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In fact, it tends to disprove the biological argument.
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Most biological systems have feedback mechanisms that help smooth out the little fluctuations that life throws at them.
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The Marie Curie Research Institute develops molecular biological research into the causes and treatment of cancer.
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There is no biological need for the father to be anywhere around when the baby is born and nurtured.
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We can not answer the mystery of desire with descriptions of biological functioning.