Biological agents such as parasites, microorganisms, plants and animals can have varied effects when exposed to the skin.

Biological contaminants include mold, fungus, bacteria, viruses, animal dander, dust mites, pollen, human skin cells, cockroach parts, or anything alive or living at one time.

Biological adaptation also plays a role in phenotype of bodily features and skin type.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Biological terrorism dates as far back as Ancient Rome, when feces were thrown into faces of enemies.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Biological pigments were often difficult to acquire, and the details of their production were kept secret by the manufacturers.

These pests were rampant in the 1970s and 1980s, but were brought under control following the establishment of the Biological Control Center for Africa of the IITA under the leadership of Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren.

In 1990, two PETA activists posed as employees of Carolina Biological, where they took pictures and video inside the company, alleging that cats were being mistreated.

The American Biological Safety Association ( ABSA ) was officially established in 1984 and a constitution and bylaws were drafted the same year.

The Fish and Wildlife Service was finally created in 1940, when the Bureaus of Fisheries and Biological Survey were combined after being moved to the Department of the Interior.

When the University changed its name in 1964, the colleges were renamed Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Home Economics, Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Graduate School.

" Biological samples were tested for 128 chemicals, with results showing average or below average levels for all chemicals except tungsten, styrene and PCB-52, which were above average.

After work by Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s there was a concept for Direct Injection Antipersonnel Chemical Biological Agent ( DIACBA ) where flechettes were grooved, hollow pointed, or otherwise milled to retain a quantity of chemical biological warfare agent to deliver through a ballistic wound.

The Schools of Architecture, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, English Language and Literature, History of Art, Law, Philosophy, Pure Mathematics and Social Work were ranked at 5.

All of the regiments ' musicians were trained as medical orderlies, however they now undertake a role in Nuclear, Biological and Chemical decontamination.

The batteries used for Alouette were developed by the Defence Chemical, Biological, and Radiation Laboratory ( DCBRL ), another branch of DRB, and were partially responsible for the long lifetime of the satellite.

Diversitas was established in 1991, and its founding sponsors were the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment and the International Union of Biological Sciences.

Physicists Rudolf Fleischmann and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker were known to be working at the University of Strasbourg, as was Eugen von Haagen, an expert on viruses whose work was of great concern to the Alsos Mission's Biological Warfare Section.

In the same year that SALT I was signed, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty were also concluded.

These sections were: ( 1 ) Littérature française, Histoire, Archéologie ; ( 2 ) English Literature, History, Archaeology ; ( 3 ) Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences ; and ( 4 ) Geological and Biological Sciences.

* The Ark, a ship used as a Scottish Marine Station, now the basis of the University Marine Biological Station Millport

Biological organisms contain genetic material that is used to control their function and development.

* Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a natural reserve owned by the university and used by wildlife biologists for research, located south of the main campus.

* Biological agent, infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare

Until 2010, it was used as a non-hospital base for the School of Medicine and home to a research facility for the Biological Sciences.

The assumption being that Iraq used both smallpox and anthrax during this war All of this occurring while Iraq was a party to the Geneva Protocol on September 8, 1931, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on October 29, 1969, signed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972, but did not ratify until June 11, 1991.

* Rio Convention, one of several commonly used " Rio " nicknames for the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity

** Biological assimilation is also used by the Zerg in the StarCraft series as a way of incorporating the genetics of other species into their own genepool.

Biological monitoring metrics have been developed in many places, and one widely used measure is the presence and abundance of members of the insect orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera.

The method used by Paulescu to prepare his pancreatic extract, as published in the Archives Internationales de Physiologie in 1921, was similar to a procedure described by the American researcher Israel S. Kleiner in an article published in 1919 in Journal of Biological Chemistry.

* CHM, abbreviation used for " Clearing House Mechanism " under the Convention on Biological Diversity

Biological staining is also used to mark cells in flow cytometry, and to flag proteins or nucleic acids in gel electrophoresis.

Biological indicators (" bioindicators ") can also be used to independently confirm autoclave performance.

Biological agents, such as Cetuximab have recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of squamous cell head and neck cancers, and are likely to have an increasing role in the future management of this condition when used in conjunction with other treatments.

Biological controls can be used to stop invasive species or pests, or they can be they route by which new pests are introduced.

Biological models explaining the origins of kleptomania have been based mostly on pharmacotherapy treatment studies that used selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ), mood stabilizers, and opioid receptor antagonists.

Established in 1979, it was the forum used by its member states, currently numbering 65, to negotiate the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Polarization is also a term used in Biological Psychology to describe the process of a neuronal membrane accumulating ions of opposing polarity.

The National Marine Biological Library at the Marine Biological Association retains some original illustrations used by Richardson in preparation for the second edition of Yarrell's book.

* Site of Biological Importance, one of the non-statutory designations used locally by the Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Staffordshire County Councils in England to protect locally valued sites of biological diversity which are described generally as Local Wildlife Sites by the UK Government

Fuller's earth is also used by military and civil emergency service personnel to decontaminate the clothing and equipment of soldiers and CBRN ( Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear ) responders who have been contaminated with chemical agents.

* CBN is an acronym for Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear warfare ( though currently, CBRN is more commonly used.