BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Scientific research conducted by biologists

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("biological research" is a kind of...):

research project; scientific research (research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biological research"):

cloning (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))

nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation (moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another)

stem-cell research (research on stem cells and their use in medicine)

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