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Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage ( BECCS ) is the process of extracting bioenergy from biomass and capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that is produced.
Greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy can be low because when vegetation is harvested for bioenergy, new vegetation can grow that will absorb ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_and_storage |
Bioenvironmental Engineers (BEEs) within the United States Air Force (USAF) blend the understanding of fundamental engineering principles with a broad preventive medicine mission to identify, evaluate and recommend controls for hazards that could harm USAF Airmen , employees, and their families. The information from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenvironmental_Engineering |
Bioequivalence is a term in pharmacokinetics used to assess the expected in vivo biological equivalence of two proprietary preparations of a drug. If two products are said to be bioequivalent it means that they would be expected to be, for all intents and purposes, the same.
One article defined bioequivalence by stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioequivalence |
This definition describes the chemical process of bioerosion, specifically as it applies to biorelated polymers and applications, rather than the geological concept, as covered in the article text. Surface degradation resulting from the action of cells.
Note 1 : Erosion is a general characteristic of biodegradation b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioerosion |
Biofabrication is a branch of biotechnology specialising in the research and development of biologically engineered processes for the automated production of biologically functional products through bioprinting or bioassembly and subsequent tissue maturation processes; [ 1 ] as well as techniques such as directed assem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofabrication |
Biofabrication is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research that leads to the fabrication of advanced biological models, medical therapeutic products, and non-medical biological systems. The editor-in-chief is Wei Sun ( Drexel University ).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofabrication_(journal) |
In biology , a biofact is dead material of a once-living organism. [ 1 ]
In 1943, the protozoologist Bruno M. Klein of Vienna (1891–1968) coined the term in his article Biofakt und Artefakt in the microscopy journal Mikrokosmos , though at that time it was not adopted by the scientific community. Klein's concept of bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact_(biology) |
In philosophy and sociology , a biofact is a being that is both an artifact and living being , or both natural and artificial . [ 1 ] This being has been created by purposive human action but exists by processes of growth. [ 1 ] The word is a neologism coined from the combination of the words bios and artifact .
There... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact_(philosophy) |
Biofeedback is the technique of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions of one's own body by using electronic or other instruments, and with a goal of being able to manipulate the body's systems at will. Humans conduct biofeedback naturally all the time, at varied levels of consciousness and intention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback |
Aggregate of microorganisms in which cells that are frequently embedded within a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) adhere to each other and/or to a surface.
A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm |
Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water , capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff , and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air. Industrial biofiltration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilter |
Biofluid dynamics may be considered as the discipline of biological engineering or biomedical engineering in which the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics are used to explain the mechanisms of biological flows and their interrelationships with physiological processes, in health and in diseases/disorder. It can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofluid_dynamics |
Biofoams are biological or biologically derived foams , making up lightweight and porous cellular solids. A relatively new term, its use in academia began in the 1980s in relation to the scum that formed on activated sludge plants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Biofoams is a broad umbrella term that covers a large variety of topics inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofoam |
Biofouling or biological fouling is the accumulation of microorganisms , plants , algae , or small animals where it is not wanted on surfaces such as ship and submarine hulls, devices such as water inlets, pipework, grates, ponds, and rivers that cause degradation to the primary purpose of that item. Such accumulation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofouling |
Biofumigation is a method of pest control in agriculture, a variant of fumigation where the gaseous active substance—fumigant—is produced by decomposition of plant material freshly chopped and buried in the soil for this purpose. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Plants from the Brassicaceae family (e.g., mustards , cauliflower , and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofumigation |
In the field of bioengineering , biofunctionalisation (or biofunctionalization) is the modification of a material to have biological function and/or stimulus , whether permanent or temporary, while at the same time being biologically compatible . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Various types of medical implants are designed to biof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofunctionalisation |
Biogas is a gaseous renewable energy source [ 1 ] produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste , manure , municipal waste , plant material , sewage , green waste , wastewater , and food waste . Biogas is produced by anaerobic digestion with anaerobic organisms or methanogens inside an anaerobic digester , bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas |
BLOC-1 or biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex 1 is a ubiquitously expressed multisubunit protein complex in a group of complexes that also includes BLOC-2 and BLOC-3. BLOC-1 is required for normal biogenesis of specialized organelles of the endosomal-lysosomal system, such as melanosomes and platelet dens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis_of_lysosome-related_organelles_complex_1 |
BLOC-3 or biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex 3 is a ubiquitously expressed multisubunit protein complex. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex 3 has been shown to interact with Rab9A . [ 4 ]
The identified protein subunits of BLOC-1 include:
This cell biology article is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis_of_lysosome-related_organelles_complex_3 |
Biogenic silica (bSi), also referred to as opal , biogenic opal, or amorphous opaline silica , forms one of the most widespread biogenic minerals . For example, microscopic particles of silica called phytoliths can be found in grasses and other plants.
Silica is an amorphous metalloid oxide formed by complex inorganic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenic_silica |
A biogenic substance is a product made by or of life forms. While the term originally was specific to metabolite compounds that had toxic effects on other organisms, [ 1 ] it has developed to encompass any constituents, secretions, and metabolites of plants or animals . [ 2 ] In context of molecular biology , biogenic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenic_substance |
Biogenic sulfide corrosion is a bacterially mediated process of forming hydrogen sulfide gas and the subsequent conversion to sulfuric acid that attacks concrete and steel within wastewater environments. The hydrogen sulfide gas is biochemically oxidized in the presence of moisture to form sulfuric acid. The effect of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenic_sulfide_corrosion |
A biogeochemical cycle , or more generally a cycle of matter , [ 1 ] is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust. Major biogeochemical cycles include the carbon cycle , the nitrogen cycle and the water cycle . In each cycle, the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeochemical_cycle |
Biogeochemistry is the scientific discipline that involves the study of the chemical , physical , geological , and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere , the cryosphere , the hydrosphere , the pedosphere , the atmosphere , and the lithosphere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeochemistry |
Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification (BEC) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an ecological classification framework used in British Columbia to define, describe, and map ecosystem -based units at various scales, from broad, ecologically-based climatic regions down to local ecosystems or sites. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] BEC is termed an ecosystem cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeoclimatic_ecosystem_classification |
Biogeographic classification of India is the division of India according to biogeographic characteristics. Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species ( biology ), organisms , and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time . India has a rich heritage of natural diversity. India ranks fourth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographic_classification_of_India |
A biogeographic realm is the broadest biogeographic division of Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms. They are subdivided into bioregions , which are further subdivided into ecoregions .
A biogeographic realm is also known as "ecozone", although that term may also refer to eco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographic_realm |
The biogeographic regions of Europe are biogeographic regions defined by the European Environment Agency .
They were initially limited to the European Union member states, but later extended to cover all of Europe west of the Urals, including all of Turkey.
The map of biogeographic regions is deliberately simplified an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographic_regions_of_Europe |
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time . Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude , elevation , isolation and habitat area . [ 1 ] Phytogeography is the branch of biogeogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography |
The Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems is a field project of the Census of Marine Life programme (CoML). The main aim of ChEss is to determine the biogeography of deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems at a global scale and to understand the processes driving these ecosystems. ChEss addresses the main q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography_of_Deep-Water_Chemosynthetic_Ecosystems |
The biogeography of gastropods is the study of the distribution of the biodiversity of gastropods over space and time.
The study of the biogeography of gastropods is within the scope of paleobiogeography .
The world's highest biodiversity of Volutomitridae is in waters of New Caledonia . [ 1 ]
The biogeography of no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography_of_gastropods |
The biogeography of Paravian dinosaurs is the study of the global distribution of Paraves through geological history. Paraves is a clade that includes all of the Theropoda that are more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs . [ 1 ] These include Dromaeosauridae and Troodontidae (historically grouped under De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography_of_paravian_dinosaurs |
Biogeology is the study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere . [ 1 ]
Biogeology examines biotic , hydrologic , and terrestrial systems in relation to each other, to help understand the Earth's climate, oceans, and other effects on geologic systems. [ 2 ]
For example, bacteria are resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeology |
Biogeomorphology and ecogeomorphology are the study of interactions between organisms and the development of landforms , and are thus fields of study within geomorphology and ichnology . Organisms affect geomorphic processes in a variety of ways. For example, trees can reduce landslide potential where their roots penet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeomorphology |
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Biohappiness , or bio-happiness , is the elevation of well-being in humans and other animals through biological methods, including germline engineering through screening embryos with genes associated with a high level of happiness, or the use of drugs intended to raise baseline levels of happine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohappiness |
Biohazard , subtitled The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It , is a 1999 book by former Soviet biological warfare researcher Ken Alibek that purports to expose the former Soviet Union's extensive covert biological weapons program.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohazard_(book) |
A biohybrid microswimmer also known as biohybrid nanorobot , [ 1 ] can be defined as a microswimmer that consist of both biological and artificial constituents, for instance, one or several living microorganisms attached to one or various synthetic parts.
In recent years nanoscopic and mesoscopic objects have been des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohybrid_microswimmer |
Biohybrid systems refer to the integration of biological materials, such as cells or tissues, with artificial components, including electronics or mechanical structure . This combination leverages the capabilities of living organisms alongside the precision of man-made technology, enabling the performance of tasks that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohybrid_system |
Biohydrogen is H 2 that is produced biologically. [ 1 ] Interest is high in this technology because H 2 is a clean fuel and can be readily produced from certain kinds of biomass , [ 2 ] including biological waste. [ 3 ] Furthermore some photosynthetic microorganisms are capable to produce H 2 directly from water splitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohydrogen |
Biohydrometallurgy is a technique in the world of metallurgy that utilizes biological agents (bacteria) to recover and treat metals such as copper. Modern biohydrometallurgy advances started with the bioleaching of copper more efficiently in the 1950s [ 1 ]
Hydrometallurgy refers to a specific process involving the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohydrometallurgy |
Bioimage informatics is a subfield of bioinformatics and computational biology . [ 1 ] It focuses on the use of computational techniques to analyze bioimages, especially cellular and molecular images, at large scale and high throughput. The goal is to obtain useful knowledge out of complicated and heterogeneous image ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioimage_informatics |
A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species ) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment. The most common indicator species are animals. [ 2 ] For example, copepods and other small water crustaceans that are present in many water bodies can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioindicator |
The Bioinformatics Institute ( Abbreviation: BII [ 1 ] ) is one of the Biomedical Sciences Institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research , (A*STAR). BII was originally founded in 2001 by Dr Rajagopal as a support unit for Bioinformatics and IT service management . However, since August 2007, it has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics_Institute_(Singapore) |
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference ( BOSC ) is an academic conference on open-source programming and other open science practices in bioinformatics , organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation . The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within Intelligent System... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics_Open_Source_Conference |
Non-coding RNAs have been discovered using both experimental and bioinformatic approaches. Bioinformatic approaches can be divided into three main categories. The first involves homology search , although these techniques are by definition unable to find new classes of ncRNAs. The second category includes algorithms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics_discovery_of_non-coding_RNAs |
The Bioinorganic Chemistry Award has been awarded by the Dalton division of the Royal Society of Chemistry every two years since 2009. The winner receives £2000 and undertakes a lecture tour in the UK. [ 1 ] The award was discontinued in 2020. [ 2 ]
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This chemistry -related article is a stub . You can he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinorganic_Chemistry_Award |
Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology . Bioinorganic chemistry includes the study of both natural phenomena such as the behavior of metalloproteins as well as artificially introduced metals, including those that are non-essential , in medicine and toxicology . Many biological pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinorganic_chemistry |
Bioinstructive materials provide instruction to biological cells or tissue, for example immune instruction when monocytes are cultured on certain polymers they polarise to pro- or anti-inflammatory macrophages with potential applications in implanted devices, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] or materials for the repair of musculoskeletal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinstructive_material |
A biointerface is the region of contact between a biomolecule, cell , biological tissue or living organism or organic material considered living with another biomaterial or inorganic/organic material. The motivation for biointerface science stems from the urgent need to increase the understanding of interactions betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointerface |
BioInvent International is a Swedish clinical-stage biotech company that discovers and develops novel and first-in-class immunomodulatory antibodies for cancer therapy. The company’s validated, proprietary F.I.R.S.T™ technology platform simultaneously identifies both targets and the antibodies that bind to them, genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinvent |
In medicinal chemistry , bioisosteres are chemical substituents or groups with similar physical or chemical properties which produce broadly similar biological properties in the same chemical compound. [ 1 ] In drug design , [ 2 ] the purpose of exchanging one bioisostere for another is to enhance the desired biologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioisostere |
Bioleaching is the extraction or liberation of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms . Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to treat ores or concentrates containing copper , zinc , lead , arsenic , antimony , nickel , molybdenum , gold , ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioleaching |
Biolex Therapeutics was a biotechnology firm in the Research Triangle of North Carolina which was founded in 1997 and raised $190 million from investors. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on July 5, 2012. [ 1 ]
The company focused on expression of difficult-to-synthesize recombinant proteins in its LEX platform, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biolex |
Bioliteracy is the ability to understand and engage with biological topics . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The concept is used particularly in the contexts of biotechnology and biodiversity . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
In the biotechnology context, bioliteracy is considered important for promoting the biotechnology industry and the development of bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioliteracy |
The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 is an Act by the Parliament of India for the preservation of biological diversity in India, and provides the mechanism for equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of traditional biological resources and knowledge . The Act was enacted to meet the obligations under the Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Diversity_Act,_2002 |
BiOS ( Biological Open Source/Biological Innovation for Open Society ) is an international initiative to foster innovation and freedom to operate in the biological sciences . BiOS was officially launched on 10 February 2005 by Cambia , an independent, international non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing inn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Innovation_for_Open_Society |
The Biological Weapons Act 1974 (c. 6) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , passed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 February 1974, with the long title "An Act to prohibit the development, production, acquisition and possession of certain biological agents and toxins and of biological weapons .... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Act_1974 |
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 ( BWATA) , Pub. L. 101–298 , enacted May 22, 1990 ) was a piece of U.S. legislation that was passed into law in 1990. It provided for the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention as well as criminal penalties for violation of its provisions. [ 1 ] The law was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Anti-Terrorism_Act_of_1989 |
The Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ( BTWC ), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use. [ 5 ] The treaty's full name is the Convention on the Prohi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention |
Fluorine may interact with biological systems in the form of fluorine-containing compounds. Though elemental fluorine (F 2 ) is very rare in everyday life, fluorine-containing compounds such as fluorite occur naturally as minerals. Naturally occurring organofluorine compounds are extremely rare. Man-made fluoride compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_aspects_of_fluorine |
Biological carbon fixation , or сarbon assimilation , is the process by which living organisms convert inorganic carbon (particularly carbon dioxide , CO 2 ) to organic compounds . These organic compounds are then used to store energy and as structures for other biomolecules . Carbon is primarily fixed through photosyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_carbon_fixation |
The concept of biological computation proposes that living organisms perform computations, and that as such, abstract ideas of information and computation may be key to understanding biology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As a field, biological computation can include the study of the systems biology computations performed by biota , [ ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computation |
Biological computers use biologically derived molecules — such as DNA and/or proteins — to perform digital or real computations .
The development of biocomputers has been made possible by the expanding new science of nanobiotechnology . The term nanobiotechnology can be defined in multiple ways; in a more general sens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing |
In biology , the biological cost or metabolic price is a measure of the increased energy metabolism that is required to achieve a function. Drug resistance in microbiology, for instance, has a very high metabolic price, [ 1 ] especially for antibiotic resistance . [ 2 ]
This biology article is a stub . You can help Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_cost |
Biological dark matter is an informal term for unclassified or poorly understood genetic material . This genetic material may refer to genetic material produced by unclassified microorganisms . By extension, biological dark matter may also refer to the un-isolated microorganisms whose existence can only be inferred fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_dark_matter |
Biological data refers to a compound or information derived from living organisms and their products. A medicinal compound made from living organisms, such as a serum or a vaccine, could be characterized as biological data. Biological data is highly complex when compared with other forms of data. There are many forms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_data |
Biological data visualization is a branch of bioinformatics concerned with the application of computer graphics , scientific visualization , and information visualization to different areas of the life sciences . This includes visualization of sequences , genomes , alignments , phylogenies , macromolecular structures ,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_data_visualization |
Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals ( animals , plants , fungi , bacteria , etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site ('natal dispersal') and the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal').
Dispersal is also used to describe the movement of propagules such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_dispersal |
Biological economics is an interdisciplinary field in which the interaction of human biology and economics is studied. The journal Economics and Human Biology covers the field and has an impact factor of 2.722. [ 1 ]
This economics -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
This biology art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_economics |
High-energy visible light ( HEV light ) is short-wave light in the violet / blue band from 400 to 450 nm in the visible spectrum , which in artificial narrowband form has a number of proven negative biological effects, namely on circadian rhythm and retinal health ( blue-light hazard ), which can lead to age-related ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_effects_of_high-energy_visible_light |
Biological engineering or bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically viable products. [ 1 ] Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number of pure and applied sciences, [ 2 ] such as mass and heat transfer , kine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering |
A biological hazard , or biohazard , is a biological substance that poses a threat (or is a hazard ) to the health of living organisms , primarily humans. This could include a sample of a microorganism , virus or toxin that can adversely affect human health . A biohazard could also be a substance harmful to other livin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard |
Biohydrogen is H 2 that is produced biologically. [ 1 ] Interest is high in this technology because H 2 is a clean fuel and can be readily produced from certain kinds of biomass , [ 2 ] including biological waste. [ 3 ] Furthermore some photosynthetic microorganisms are capable to produce H 2 directly from water splitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production_(algae) |
Biological imaging may refer to any imaging technique used in biology .
Typical examples include:
This biology article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_imaging |
Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality ) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence (or aging) is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality |
A Biological Indicator Evaluation Resistometer (BIER) vessel is a piece of equipment used to determine the time taken to reduce survival of a given organism by 90% (also known as a log 1 reduction ). The name derives from how the equipment is used.
A BIER vessel evaluates the resistance of biological indicators to moi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_indicator_evaluation_resistometer |
Biological integrity is associated with how "pristine" an environment is and its function relative to the potential or original state of an ecosystem before human alterations were imposed. Biological integrity is built on the assumption that a decline in the values of an ecosystem's functions are primarily caused by hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_integrity |
In ecology , a biological interaction is the effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other. They can be either of the same species (intraspecific interactions), or of different species (interspecific interactions). These effects may be short-term, or long-term, both often strongly in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_interaction |
In biology , a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_life_cycle |
The biological monitoring working party ( BMWP ) is a procedure for measuring water quality using families of macroinvertebrates as biological indicators . [ 1 ]
The method is based on the principle that different aquatic invertebrates have different tolerances to pollutants . In the case of BMWP, this is based on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_monitoring_working_party |
Biological motion is motion that comes from actions of a biological organism. Humans and animals are able to understand those actions through experience, identification, and higher level neural processing . [ 1 ] Humans use biological motion to identify and understand familiar actions, which is involved in the neural p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_motion |
Biological network inference is the process of making inferences and predictions about biological networks . [ 1 ] By using these networks to analyze patterns in biological systems, such as food-webs, we can visualize the nature and strength of these interactions between species, DNA, proteins, and more.
The analysis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_network_inference |
Sewage treatment is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [ 2 ] Sewage contains wastewater from hous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_nutrient_removal |
Biological organization is the organization of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach. [ 1 ] The traditional hierarchy, as detailed below, extends from atoms to biospheres . The higher levels of this scheme are often referred to as an ecological organizational concept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_organisation |
A biological oxidizer is a device that uses micro-organisms to treat wastewater and the volatile organic compounds produced by commercial and industrial operations. Biological oxidation devices convert biodegradable organic compounds into carbon dioxide and water . This is a natural occurring process which differs from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_oxidizer |
A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the protected invention for a limited period of time . The scope and reach of biological patents vary among jurisdictions, [ 1 ] and may include biolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_patent |
In cell biology , a biological pathway is a series of interactions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in the cell. Such a pathway can trigger the assembly of new molecules, such as a fat or protein . Pathways can also turn genes on and off, or spur a cell to move. [ 1 ] Some of the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pathway |
In France and in other countries like Portugal, Spain, Belgium or Switzerland, a Biological pharmacist (called Pharmacien biologiste in France) is a Pharmacist specialized in Clinical Biology a speciality similar to Clinical Pathology .
They have almost the same rights as Medical Doctors specialized in this discipline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pharmacist |
Biological photovoltaics , also called biophotovoltaics [ 1 ] or BPV , is an energy-generating technology which uses oxygenic photoautotrophic organisms, or fractions thereof, to harvest light energy and produce electrical power. [ 2 ] Biological photovoltaic devices are a type of biological electrochemical system, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_photovoltaics |
Biological pollution ( impacts or bio pollution ) is the impact of humanity's actions on the quality of aquatic and terrestrial environment. Specifically, biological pollution is the introduction of non-indigenous and invasive species, [ 1 ] otherwise known as Invasive Alien Species (IAS). When the biological pollution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pollution |
Biological processes are those processes that are necessary for an organism to live and that shape its capacities for interacting with its environment. Biological processes are made of many chemical reactions or other events that are involved in the persistence and transformation of life forms. [ 1 ]
Regulation of bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_process |
The biological pump (or ocean carbon biological pump or marine biological carbon pump ) is the ocean's biologically driven sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere and land runoff to the ocean interior and seafloor sediments . [ 1 ] In other words, it is a biologically mediated process which results in the sequester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pump |
Biological recording is the scientific study of the distribution of living organisms, biological records describe the presence, abundance, associations and changes, both in time and space, of wildlife. [ 1 ] There has been a long tradition of biological recording in the United Kingdom dating back to John Ray (1627–1705... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_recording |
Biological rhythms are repetitive biological processes . [ 1 ] Some types of biological rhythms have been described as biological clocks. They can range in frequency from microseconds to less than one repetitive event per decade. Biological rhythms are studied by chronobiology . In the biochemical context biological rh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_rhythm |
A biological rule or biological law is a generalized law , principle , or rule of thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms. Biological rules and laws are often developed as succinct, broadly applicable ways to explain complex phenomena or salient observations about the ecology and biogeographi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_rules |
Biological small-angle scattering is a small-angle scattering method for structure analysis of biological materials. Small-angle scattering is used to study the structure of a variety of objects such as solutions of biological macromolecules, nanocomposites, alloys, and synthetic polymers. [ 1 ] Small-angle X-ray scatt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_small-angle_scattering |
Biological soil crusts , often abbreviated as biocrusts , are communities of living organisms inhabiting the surface of soils in arid and semi-arid ecosystems , which form stable aggregates of soil particles in a thin layer millimeters to centimeters thick. [ 1 ] They are found throughout the world with varying species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_soil_crust |
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species .
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organisms or constituents of living organisms of being special or doing somethi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_specificity |
A biological system is a complex network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is. [ 1 ] Examples of biological systems at the macro scale are populations of organisms . On the organ ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_system |
Biological systems engineering or biosystems engineering is a broad-based engineering discipline with particular emphasis on non-medical biology . It can be thought of as a subset of the broader notion of biological engineering or bio-technology though not in the respects that pertain to biomedical engineering as biosy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_systems_engineering |
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