biological
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Her enslaver, Philemon T. Hambleton—who may well have been her biological father—refused to release her from servitude.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Scientists have previously studied resilin because it behaves almost like a perfect biological rubber.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
He was jailed after an attempt to flee communist Germany but later made his way to West Germany where, following his medical studies, he invented the process to preserve biological specimens in 1977.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The irony is that Sally was also Martha’s half-sister — the product of John Wayles’ relations with an enslaved woman — making her biological kin to the Monticello Association members, too.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Just as nineteenth-century human anatomy and physiology laid the foundation for twentieth-century medicine, the anatomy and physiology of genes would lay the foundation for a powerful new biological science.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing biological
It's All in the Family
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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The Double Helix
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