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How to spell biology

hear itbi·ol·o·gy/baɪ'ɑlədʒi/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The science of living organisms and their processes.

In a sentence: Biology is the study of living things like plants and animals.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as biologie or biolagy.

Same family: biological, biologist, biologically, microbiology, marine-biology. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Biology comes from Greek roots: 'bio' meaning 'life' and 'logia' meaning 'study of' or 'account of.' The word became common in the 19th century as scientists began organizing the study of living things into its own field.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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