biological concept

collocation in English

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biological
adjective
uk
/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
connected with the natural processes of ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition ofbiologicalandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Older environmental explanations of racial difference increasingly gave way to a modern,biologicalconcept of ' race ' as distinct, immutable physical type.
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Figure 1 shows, on the right, methods corresponding to thebiologicalconceptand, on the left, the methods based on the agronomic concept of stability.
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Applied to a certain genotype, it is abiologicalconcept.
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Thebiologicalconceptof species is based on similarity in contemporary features together with evolutionary history.
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This richbiologicalconceptof recurring growth cycles that predict both behavior and brain changes occur in repeating patterns of common developmental progress called a developmental level.
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I shall not pursue that curiousbiologicalconcept.
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That is an interestingbiologicalconcept, but she is a lady who knows more about those matters and can probably enlighten me on how it can be done.
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The 19th century saw attempts to change race from a taxonomic to abiologicalconcept.
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In contrast to learning, natural selection is solely abiologicalconcept.
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Clan belief is that pregnancy is due to spirits, and they do not have abiologicalconceptof fatherhood.
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Since the 1960s scientists have understood race as a social construct imposed on phenotypes in culturally determined ways, rather than abiologicalconcept.
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No otherbiologicalconcepthas been more extensively tested and more thoroughly corroborated than the evolutionary history of organisms.
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This approach is associated with scholars who question the validity of race as abiologicalconcept.
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This prerequisite is an example of thebiologicalconceptknown as "reciprocal induction", in this instance between mesenchymal and epithelial cells.
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After all, we don't have a watertight definition of most of the important biological concepts : ' 'life, ' ' ' 'species, ' ' and ' 'gene.
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Paradoxically, however, he then translates his interpretations into biological concepts of evolution often without any apparent justification, as most of his cases are ambiguous.
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Over onethird of the book (73 pp) covers some basic biological concepts, including sections on plant physiology, agronomy and cellular and molecular biology.
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He sometimes suggests that other explanations are at play for the variation in the archaeological evidence that does not conform to his evolutionary biological concepts.
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Further examination revealed that the agents, objects, and keywords by themselves might be used to succinctly describe biological concepts associated with each keyword.
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Many institutions worldwide, have married biological concepts to computer science methodology, and are pursuing research projects aimed at producing better information systems.
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