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How to spell biology

Biology is spelled B-I-O-L-O-G-Y.

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

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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.

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