Biology
- Spot croaker, a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
- SpoT (Biology), a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
- Any of several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused, for example, by Diplocarpon variants (black spot on roses)
- Pimple, a skin blemish
- Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
- Metrorrhagia, vaginal bleeding not synchronized with a menstrual period
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Famous quotes containing the word biology:
“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”
—Rachel Carson (1907–1964)