Biological warfare

Biological warfare is the intentional use of living microorganisms or their toxic products for the purpose of destroying or reducing the military effectiveness of man.

Biological warfare ( also known as germ warfare ) is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

There is an overlap between biological warfare and chemical warfare, as the use of toxins produced by living organisms is considered under the provisions of both the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Offensive biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ).

Though herbicides are chemicals, they are often grouped with biological warfare and chemical warfare because they may work in a similar manner as biotoxins or bioregulators and also because the Army Biological Laboratory tested them and the Army's Technical Escort Unit which all chemical, biological, radiological ( nuclear ) materials.

Biological warfare can also specifically target plants to destroy crops or defoliate vegetation.

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** The U. S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.

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This type of warfare is distinct from Nuclear warfare and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical ( warfare or weapons ), all of which are considered " weapons of mass destruction " ( WMD ).

Biological classification is a form of scientific taxonomy.

Biological processes play a major role in the removal of contaminants and biotechnology is taking advantage of the astonishing catabolic versatility of microorganisms to degrade / convert such compounds.

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

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The Kerckhoff Laboratory of the Biological SciencesThe Institute is organized into six primary academic divisions: Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy.

The Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is the focal point for the International Year of Biodiversity.

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization ( ABS ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Biological taxonomy is not fixed, and placement of taxa is reviewed as a result of new research.

El Salvador is party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, CITES, Basel Convention, Partial Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention.

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.

The John Anderson school collapsed soon after Agassiz's death, but is considered a precursor of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, which is nearby.

Biological evolution proceeds by random variation in ensemble averages of organisms combined with culling of the less-successful variants and reproduction of the more-successful variants, and macroscale engineering design also proceeds by a process of design evolution from simplicity to complexity as set forth somewhat satirically by John Gall: " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Biological nitrogen fixation ( BNF ) occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by an enzyme called nitrogenase.

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

Biological anthropology ( also known as bioanthropology and physical anthropology ) is a branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species.

The nomenclature of the field is not exact: the relevant subdivision of the American Anthropological Association is the Biological Anthropology Section while the principal professional organization is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

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.

In " Visualizing Biological Information " ( 1995 ) Pickover considered " biological data of all kinds, which is proliferating at an incredible rate ".

In some institutions, Biosystems Engineering is considered a broader term which includes Biological Engineering and Agricultural Engineering also and Agricultural Engineering ).

The Barbary Falcon is one of the rare cases that may arguably be considered a species under the Biological, but certainly not under the Phylogenetic Species Concept rather than the other way around as usual.

The ruling was considered a success for a coalition of conservation groups including the Friends of Juniper Flats, Community Off-road Vehicle Watch, California Native Plant Society, The Center for Biological Diversity, The Sierra Club, and The Wilderness Society who initiated the legal challenge in late 2006.

Biological signals, like warning calls or resplendent tail feathers, are considered honest if they are correlated with, or reliably predict, something useful to the receiver.

Anakinra is not considered a ' Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug ' ( DMARD ) but rather a ' Biological Response Modifier ' ( BRM ) because its able to selectively target the pathologic element of the disease.

* Biological Systems Engineering ( a major which may also be called Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Biological and Environmental Engineering, etc.

Biological weapons may be employed in various ways to gain a strategic or tactical advantage over an adversary, either by threats or by actual deployments.

Biological specimens typically require to be chemically fixed, dehydrated and embedded in a polymer resin to stabilize them sufficiently to allow ultrathin sectioning.

Biological tissue must be supported in a hard matrix to allow sufficiently thin sections to be cut, typically 5 μm ( micrometres ; 1000 micrometres

Biological classification is a critical step in the taxonomic process, as it informs the user as to what the relatives of the taxon are hypothesized to be.

Seed and DNA stocks can be obtained from NASC or the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center.

To be admitted, a state must: be a producer / exporter of arms or sensitive industrial equipment ; maintain non-proliferation policies and appropriate national policies including: adherence to non-proliferation policies, control list and, where applicable, guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime and the Australia Group ; and adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and, where applicable, START I, including the Lisbon Protocol ; and maintain fully effective export controls.

Biological factors which may be related to the development of a heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual orientation include genes, prenatal hormones, and brain structure.

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

It also hosts the National Cancer Institute-Frederick ( NCI-Frederick ) and will be home to the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research ( NICBR )

The aquarium was built in honor of the work of Edward Ricketts ( 1897-1948 ), a marine biologist who specialized in describing communities of organisms ( which would also be the focus of aquarium tanks ), and whose old laboratory ( Pacific Biological Laboratories ) and home resides next to the present MBA site.

Biological SSSIs may be selected for various reasons, governed by published SSSI Selection Guidelines.

Biological control might be a new possible way to control Staphylococcus aureus in body surfaces.

John Dupre, in a number of papers, but mainly in his paper " Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa " has demonstrated that the theory of natural kinds, which many have taken to be established and / or supported by Putnam's Twin-Earth Thought experiment does not find support in the practice of scientific classification.

Biological toxicity can be difficult to measure because the " threshold dose " may be a single organism.

Two environmental conservation areas can be found in this city: " Delta do Jacuí " ( Jacuí Delta ) State Park and Lami Biological Reserve.