Biological

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The word biological may refer to:

• Adjectival form of "biology", the study of life
• Biological (noun), a biological preparation (e.g., a vaccine or antitoxin) that is synthesized from living organisms or their products and used medically as a diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic agent. (Often used in distinction to a pharmaceutical (drug)).
• Biological agent, an infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare.
• Biological tissue
• Biological process
• Organism, a biological entity
• Life, the characteristic state of organisms
• Consanguinity, being descended from the same ancestor

Materials and substances:

Main disambiguation page: Biological material

• Biological tissue, or just tissue
• Biomass, living or dead biological matter, often plants grown as fuel
• Biomass (ecology), the total mass of living biological matter
• Biomaterials
• Biocompatible materials and bioapplicable materials
• Biomolecule, a chemical compound that naturally occurs in living organisms
• Biotic material, from living things
• Bio-based material, a processed biotic material
• Cellular component, material and substances of which cells (and thus living organisms) are composed
• Organic material (or organic matter), derived from living things or containing carbon
• Viable material, capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions. (see: viability)
• Body fluids

[edit] See also

• Biological warfare
• Organic (disambiguation)