Not only does my ex-husband have no biological link to Irina - neither do I.
Maybe religion has no biological basis, but religiosity surely does and it must have been to our evolutionary advantage.
These examples, and similar ones, argue that race has no biological meaning.
But the risk was about the same if their adoptive siblings -- those who had no biological connection to them -- had abused drugs.
The initiative allowed the state to carry out limited wolf control by aircraft only in the case of a scientifically documented biological emergency when no other alternative was available.
While the detection of viruses is distributed over the Internet, for example, just as the cells of the immune system are spread throughout the body, there is no biological equivalent of the central analysis centre.
Their optimism stemmed from trial results that were less conclusive than enthusiasts believed, with a drug that bore no definitive biological relationship to the disease of melanoma.
Once put in a biological setting, they no longer worked.
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There were no chemical or biological weapons with the containerized labs, which measure 20 feet square.
Mr McCurdy said there was no micro-biological risk in horsemeat contamination if cooking and hygiene are correct.
"There are no radioactive, biological, chemical and other dangerous materials on board the station, " the foreign ministry said.
As a single mother with two other young children, the biological mother felt she had no choice but to give her daughter up for adoption, said a legal brief filed by her lawyers.
But the landers found no other signs of biological activity, nor any organic compounds.
Meanwhile Italy's Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia has tried to reassure public opinion that while the government is fully aware of the dangers of possible biological or chemical attacks, there is no point in being alarmist.
In 2008, the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) decided that no further ocean fertilization activities for whatever purpose should be carried out in non-coastal waters until there was stronger scientific justification, assessed through a global regulatory mechanism.
She was abandoned as a newborn at a hospital in Malaysia (to this day she has no clue as to who her biological parents are) and adopted by a poverty-stricken 63-year-old widow who was a habitual gambler.
"There are plenty of reasons why married couples do very well and why children brought up by their biological parents do better, but that is no reason to damn the widow or damn anybody, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Both these experiments were done in mice but no one doubted that the same kind of biological malleability was also achievable in human cells.
When they did manage to sniff out the odour free socks and shoes, they concluded that there was no risk of health effects to humans or biological effects in the aquatic environment.
Iraq, though, has repeatedly claimed that the inspectors will not find anything because the country no longer has any programmes to make chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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Engagements traditionally lasted no longer than six months, according to Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University and chief scientific advisor of Chemistry.com, and they were at one point viewed as pit stops on the way to marriage.
The author says that no single innovation will have a more profound effect than the conversion of biological data.
In an interview with CNN, Fahey said he saw no reason why football and other major team sports couldn't introduce biological profiles.
"Currently, we have identified no infectious agent common to all of the cases, " the statement said, adding that no evidence exists that the cases were caused by exposure to chemical or biological weapons, SARS or environmental toxins.
Even if, unlikely as it seems at present, Mr Hussein agrees to give carte blanche to Unmovic to scour Iraq for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, that may not be enough to convince everyone that the country is no longer a threat.
But all the fanfare associated with the value of biodiversity, the excitement of discovering new species, expanding or at least maintaining parklands, greenbelts, and critical biological corridors has in a matter of a few days once again been tainted by doubts and no small terror.
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