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

A type of symbiosis that is beneficial to one symbiont and detrimental to another one; for example, "parasitism".

Growing on burned-over soil or scorched material.

1. The study of the biologic relationships of humans as a species.
2. The biological study of human beings and the anthropoid apes.

A record of the resistance of microbes to various antibiotics.

A microorganism producing antimicrobial substances; antipathetic organisms.

1. A condition of antagonism between organisms, especially micro-organisms (antonym of symbiosis).
2. The antagonistic association between two organisms in which one species adversely affects the other, often by production of a toxin.
3. An association of two organisms which is detrimental to one of them, in contrast to probiosis.
4. Production of an antibiotic by bacteria or other organisms inhibitory to other living things, especially among soil microbes.

1. Related to antibiosis.
2. Destructive of life.
3. A chemical substance produced by a microorganism that has the capacity, in dilute solutions, to inhibit the growth of or to kill other microorganisms.
4. Opposed to a belief in the presence or the possibility of life.

Substances that are sufficiently nontoxic to the host are used as chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of infectious diseases of man, animals, and plants.

Death, especially local death of a part of an organism.

1. The original development or origin of life.
2. The origination of living matter from non-living matter.
3. Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

1. A period of reduced metabolic activity (chemical and physical processes involved in the maintenance of life).
2. Either the condition of an inactive larva not yet metamorphosed to a pupa or autointoxication, particularly among insects.

1. A branch of biology concerned with the discovery or study of life on the celestial bodies or in outer space.
2. The study of the movements of heavenly bodies and how these patterns affect living systems on earth.
3. The study of the relationship of all living things to the universe.

Dormancy induced by relatively low temperatures.

Organisms living in the air; aerial organisms.

Someone who writes about his or her personal life history.

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