Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, " the mother she never knew ".

At the age of 23 he learned about his biological parents, contacted his mother, and met her and his then 16 year old sister for the first time.

In May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bay's birth mother.

He had believed that his biological father was Ulf Trier ( 1907 — 1978 ), until his mother revealed to him on her deathbed that he had been conceived as a result of an affair she had with her employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann.

Omasa, Munisai's widow, was not Musashi's biological mother.

According to the pianist ’ s son Dave Guaraldi, Vince was adopted by Tony Guaraldi, after Vince ’ s mother, Cannella Guaraldi, née Marcellino, split with his biological father, Vince Delaio ( sp ?).

( Lady Colin Campbell claims Elizabeth's biological mother was the family cook, Marguerite Rodiere, by means of a surrogacy arrangement that was not uncommon in aristocratic families at the time.

There are documented cases of allomothering, which means members of the troop other than the infant's biological mother care for it.

According to Caroline, Anouilh had learned his mother had had a lover at the theatre in Arcachon who was actually his biological father.

His biological mother entrusted her son's care to her former foster parents Roy and Karen, hoping that they would be able to provide him with an education and a stable family life.

When the biological father dies, or divorces, the mother may marry a second man who becomes the stepfather of the child.

Where a child is conceived as a result of sperm donation, the donor will be the ' biological father ' of the child, and if the mother has a male partner, he will be the nurturing father.

Thus, she carries and gives birth to a child that is she not the biological mother of.

Currently, with advances in reproductive technologies, the function of biological motherhood can be split between the genetic mother ( who provides the ovum ) and the gestational ( commonly known as a surrogate ) mother ( who carries the pregnancy ).

* Lara ( comics ), the biological mother of the comic book character Superman

Shawn receives a letter from his mother confessing she is not his biological mother.

Shawn unsuccessfully searches for his biological mother.

It was not until 1986, prior to a trip to Italy and while applying for a US passport to travel abroad, when his mother provided him with the hand-written copy of his original birth certificate that Holmes learned the name of his biological father, Carl Estes.

Tina, the sexy but highly incompetent adoption agency employee, decides to accompany Mel, Nancy, and the newborn on a trip to San Diego to meet Mel's biological mother.

They quickly realize that Valerie is not Mel's biological mother, and Tina scrambles to get the correct information from the agency database.

Researchers concluded that she may be Tutankhamun's biological mother, an unnamed daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, not Queen Nefertiti.

Scholars think that, after Tutankhamun returned Egypt to the traditional religion, he moved his closest relatives: father, grandmother, and biological mother, to the Valley of the Kings to be buried with him ( according to the list of figurines and drawings in his tomb ).

The biological and physical properties of infectious particles have been studied intensively during the past fifteen years.

It examines the biological and social factors that have affected the evolution of humans and other primates, and that generate, maintain or change contemporary genetic and physiological variation.

Alkanes are not very reactive and have little biological activity.

These have been grouped into three domains: physical acoustics, biological acoustics and acoustical engineering.

In Lebanon more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered between the 1960s and 1990s, among which about 20 outcrops have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.

Alfonso's biological paternity is uncertain: there is speculation that his biological father may have been Enrique Puig y Moltó ( a captain of the guard ), or even an American dental student.

The recent developments of computer automation and information technologies have innervated analytical chemistry to initiate a number of new biological fields.

In general, the difference between a statistics program and a biostatistics program is twofold: ( i ) statistics departments will often host theoretical / methodological research which are less common in biostatistics programs and ( ii ) statistics departments have lines of research that may include biomedical applications but also other areas such as industry ( quality control ), business and economics and biological areas other than medicine.

Some biological agents ( especially smallpox, plague, and tularemia ) have the capability of person-to-person transmission via aerosolized respiratory droplets.

Rudimentary forms of biological warfare have been practiced over and over again throughout history.

Actual biological warfare use of trichothecenes mycotoxin in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan is strongly supported by epidemiological and intelligence assessments as well as trichothecene assays, although reports in the open literature have discounted this contention.

It provides that the Parties undertake not to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire or retain biological agents or toxins, of types and in quantities that have no justification for peaceful purposes, as well as weapons, equipment and means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.

Some efforts have been partially effective in creating fear, due to the lack of visibility associated with modern biological weapon use by small organizations.

Anthrax is one of the few biological agents that federal employees have been vaccinated for.

Planning may involve the development of biological identification systems. Until recently in the United States, most biological defense strategies have been geared to protecting soldiers on the battlefield rather than ordinary people in cities.

The processes and methods of agriculture have been refined by other mechanical and biological sciences since its inception.

Different types of biological membranes have diverse lipid and protein compositions.

Studies have shown that numerous biological systems, such as Xenopus oocyte maturation, mammalian calcium signal transduction, and polarity in budding yeast, incorporate temporal ( slow and fast ) positive feedback loops, or more than one feedback loop that occurs at different times.

Other authors have found small or inconsistent differences in concentrations but claim that exposure of cyclists is higher due to increased minute ventilation and is associated with minor biological changes .< ref > The significance of the associated health effect, if any, is unclear but probably much smaller than the health impacts associated with accidents and the health benefits derived from additional physical activity.

This means that thermophilic decomposition of the humanure must heat it sufficiently to destroy harmful pathogens, or enough time must have elapsed since fresh material was added that biological activity has killed any pathogens.

Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) have designed several cruise missile variants, such as the well-known C-802, some of which are capable of carrying biological, chemical, nuclear, and conventional warheads.

The Barbados introductions were focused on the biological control of pests damaging the sugarcane crops, and while the toads became abundant, they have not been as successful in controlling the pests as in Australia.

All other carotenoids, including lycopene, have no beta-ring and thus no vitamin A activity ( although they may have antioxidant activity and thus biological activity in other ways ).