thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms. Biological rules and laws are often developed as succinct, broadly applicable ways to...

the naming of living organisms. Standardizing the scientific names of biological organisms allows researchers to discuss findings (including the discovery...

(384–322 BCE) contributed extensively to the development of biological knowledge. He explored biological causation and the diversity of life. His successor, Theophrastus...

Haldane's rule is an observation about the early stage of speciation, formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that states...

the area of animal behavior (ethology) and on philosophical aspects of biological science. His education and scientific work were interrupted by service...

Dollo's law of irreversibility (also known as Dollo's law and Dollo's principle), proposed in 1893 by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo states that, "an...

Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with...

Rensch's rule is a biological rule on allometrics, concerning the relationship between the extent of sexual size dimorphism and which sex is larger. Across...

competitive exclusion is rarely observed in natural ecosystems, and many biological communities appear to violate Gause's law. The best-known example is the...

Cope's rule states that lineages increase in size over evolutionary time. Cope's rule, named after American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, postulates...

ultimately lead to speciation within the parasite. According to Fahrenholz's rule, first proposed by Heinrich Fahrenholz in 1913, when host-parasite cospeciation...

A biological hazard, or biohazard, is a biological substance that poses a threat (or is a hazard) to the health of living organisms, primarily humans....

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals...

Emery's rule is the trend of social parasites to be parasites to species or genera they are closely related to. In 1909, the entomologist Carlo Emery noted...

Ren-Chung; Gregorič, Matjaž; et al. (2019). "Golden Orbweavers Ignore Biological Rules: Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses Unravel a Complex Evolution...

for which the parents can, on average, provide enough food". As a biological rule, the principle can be formalised and generalised to apply to reproducing...

organisms of different sizes also leads to some biological rules such as Allen's rule, Bergmann's rule and gigantothermy. In the context of wildfires,...

Hamilton, Chris A & Cheng, Ren-Chung (2018), "Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution...

extant Crocodylia and the relationships of their reproductive characters". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129 (4): 875–887. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz208...

biology, von Baer's laws of embryology (or laws of development) are four rules proposed by Karl Ernst von Baer to explain the observed pattern of embryonic...

pharmacological or biological activity has chemical properties and physical properties that would likely make it an orally active drug in humans. The rule was formulated...

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main...

Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component...

a biological medical product, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical drug product manufactured in, extracted from, or semisynthesized from biological sources...

ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification...

characterized as biological data. Biological data is highly complex when compared with other forms of data. There are many forms of biological data, including...

In pharmacology, biological activity or pharmacological activity describes the beneficial or adverse effects of a drug on living matter. When a drug is...

In ecology, a biological interaction is the effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other. They can be either of the...

Rosa's rule, also known as Rosa's law of progressive reduction of variability, is a biological rule that observes the tendency to go from character variation...