Biosafety
the maintenance of safe conditions in biological research to prevent harm to workers, nonlaboratory organisms, or the environment.
Contemporary Examples
Growing Number of Biosafety Labs Raises Red Flags Center for Public Integrity August 19, 2014
noun
the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
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- Bioscopic
examination of a body to discover whether or not it is alive. Historical Examples The Wonder J. D. Beresford noun (pl) -pies examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- Bioscopy
examination of a body to discover whether or not it is alive. noun (pl) -pies examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- Biosensor
a device that senses and transmits information about a biological process, as blood pressure, of an individual under observation.
- -biosis
a combining form meaning “mode of life,” used in the formation of compound words: aerobiosis; parabiosis. combining form indicating a specified mode of life: symbiosis
- Biosocial
of, relating to, or entailing the interaction or combination of social and biological factors. Sociology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the theories of or phenomena studied in biosociology. of or relating to social phenomena that are affected by biological factors.