Biology vs Induction - What's the difference?
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The study of all life or living matter.
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The living organisms of a particular region.
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The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
An act of inducting.
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* Shakespeare
# A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
An act of inducing.
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# (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
# (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
# (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
# (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
# (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
(lb) The process of inducing the birth process.
(obsolete) An introduction.
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As nouns the difference between biology and induction
is that biology is the study of all life or living matter while induction is an act of inducting.biology
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- the biology of the whale
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Noun
(en noun)- I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
- These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
- This is but an induction : I will daw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.