bio-, bi-, -bia, -bial, -bian, -bion, -biont, -bius, -biosis, -bium, -biotic, -biotical +

A reference to the science of the geographical distribution of living things, animal and vegetable.

Referring to the study of the geographic distribution of plants and animals.

Describing situations involving the study of the geographic distribution of plants and animals.

Regions of the world containing recognizably distinct and characteristic endemic fauna or flora.

1. The science of the geographical distribution of living things, animal (zoogeography) and vegetable (phytogeography).
2. The study of the geographical distributions of organisms, their habitats (ecological biogeography) and the historical and biological factors that produced them (historical biogeography).

That part of the lithosphere within which living organisms can exist.

A ceramic-glass material used as a bone prosthesis.

Living bone fuses with it because chemically it resembles hydroxyapatite (an inorganic constituent of bone matrix and teeth, imparting rigidity to these structures).

A sedimentary structure consisting of a fossilized remnant or mark formed in soft sediment by the movement of an animal and pressed in sedimentary rock.

The investigation of life which results in knowing about life.

A proposed general term for the “life-sciences”.

1. An earlier form of the cinematograph.
2. An instrument for analyzing and rendering visible the movements of animals; used in diagnosis of certain nervous diseases.
3. To write or prepare a biography.

1. The subject of a biography.
2. The person whose life is described in a biography.

One who writes about the lives of people excluding oneself.

1. A reference to an account of someone’s life in the form of a book, movie, or television program, written or produced by another person.
2. Descriptive term for books about people’s lives, considered as a whole or as a type of literature.

1. Of, relating to, or dealing with biography; or a written account of another person's life.
2. Referring to, or pertaining to, a person's life.

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