Biological vs Biosource - What's the difference?
biological | biosource |
Of or relating to biology.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=John T. Jost
, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162
, magazine=(American Scientist)
Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
A biological source of some material.
* 2001 , M. B. Springett, Raw ingredient quality in processed foods (page 44)
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 15, author=Natalie Angier, title=Adored, Deplored and Ubiquitous, work=New York Times
, passage=The reason petroleum so often serves as the foundation for plastics production is that it offers an ultraconcentrated source of carbon, but carbon is carbon and with the right manipulations other handier biosources like lawn litter will do. }}
As an adjective biological
is of or relating to biology.As a noun biosource is
a biological source of some material.biological
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
Synonyms
* biologicSee also
* adoptive * biological clock * biological father * biological mother * birth motherbiosource
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Noun
(en noun)- There is growing interest in alternative adsorbentia, eg, from biosources such as rice-hull ash (silica) (Proctor etal.. 1995) or soy hull carbon (Proctor and Harris, 1996).
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