bio-graphy
bio- :word-forming element, from Greek bio-,
combining form of bios "one's life, course or way of living, lifetime"
(as opposed to zoe "animal life, organic life"),from ProtoIndoEuropean root *gweie- "to live"
or PIE root *gwiwo- "to live"
(cf. Sanskrit jivah "alive, living;"
Old English cwic "alive;"
Latin vivus "living, alive," vita "life;"
Middle Persian zhiwak "alive;"
Old Church Slavonic zivo "to live;"
Lithuanian gyvas "living, alive;"
Old Irish bethu "life," bith "age;"
Welsh byd "world").Equivalent of Latin vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean "organic life."
* これは バイオロジの bio- であり それは 動物としての生命組織とそのハタラキを――それを意味していた zoe (つまり 動物園の zo- ですね)に代わって――担うようになったとか。