BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biological research mean? 

• BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (noun)
  The noun BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH has 1 sense:

1. scientific research conducted by biologists

  Familiarity information: BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scientific research conducted by biologists

Classified under:

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)

 Context examples 

In biological research, inbreeding allows for the selection of specific genotypes or phenotypes that are of particular importance to the study being carried out.

(Inbred Mouse Strains, NCI Thesaurus)

Breeds of mice utilized for biological research.

(Mouse Strains, NCI Thesaurus)

An office within the National Institutes of Health that monitors scientific progress in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA and human gene transfer, advises federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security, provides policy advice to the Department of Health and Human Services on the broad array of complex medical, ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the development and use of genetic technologies and Xenotransplantation.

(Office of Biotechnology Activities, NCI Thesaurus)