研究生命的學科
把「活的東西」當成研究對象，這個字就從描述現象變成標示學科。
relating to biology · adjective · B2
Relating to biology, the school subject and science that studies living things.
生物學的
核心畫面
Picture a living body doing what living bodies do — breathing, healing, — with nobody deciding it. Biological points at that layer: what happens because a thing is alive. From there the word goes three ways: to the science that studies it, to weapons that turn living against people, and to the parent whose body you actually came from.
可以想成：一具活著的身體自己在運作——呼吸、癒合、變老，沒有人下指令。biological 就是指著這一層說話：因為…更多收起
可以想成：一具活著的身體自己在運作——呼吸、癒合、變老，沒有人下指令。biological 就是指著這一層說話：因為「它是活的」才會發生的事。從這裡它岔出三個方向：研究這一層的那門科學、把活的病菌拿來當武器的那種攻擊，還有你身體真正來自的那位父母。判斷用不用這個字，關鍵在於「這件事是不是生命本身造成的」。From the picture
用活的病菌當武器
同樣是「活的東西」，但被拿去傷人：武器本身就是細菌或病毒，所以用這個字和化學武器、核子武器區分開。
using living things as weapons · adjective · B2
Used about weapons or attacks that use living things such as germs to make people or animals sick.
生物（武器）的
Also in this word
relating to bodily processes · adjective · B2
Relating to the natural things that living bodies do by themselves, like breathing, growing, or feeling.
生理的 / 生物的
birth parent · adjective · B2
Used about the parent a child is born to, not a parent by adoption.
親生的
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
biologicaladj/ˌbaɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
Of or relating to biology.
- 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.
- Sex refers to a person's biological status and is typically assigned at birth, usually on the basis of external anatomy.
- 2
Relating to anatomy; anatomic, anatomical.
- Many who oppose transgender rights believe that gender is determined solely by biological sex. But, biological sex isn’t as straightforward as they likely think, and there is no one parameter that makes a person biologically male or female. In fact, many conditions make assigning a biological sex quite difficult.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential contender in the 2024 presidential race, called out a biological male swimmer who competed in and won the women's NCAA championships against his female competitors in 2022.
- 3
Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
- biological mother
- biological father
- 4
Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
- The market for cosmetics with natural ingredients in which the body shop is so successful is still a small one, as is the market for biological food products (1 per cent in the Netherlands).
biologicalnoun/ˌbaɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
rareA biological product.
- This elementary treatise on biologicals was designed primarily for the instruction of Lilly salesmen to enable them to handle the biological line intelligently.
- Iscador is a biological made from mistletoe which strengthens the natural immune system, and works against the growth of malignant cells.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。