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biotic
[ bahy-ot-ik ]
adjective
- pertaining to life.
biotic
/ bī-ŏt′ĭk /
- Consisting of living organisms. An ecosystem is made up of a biotic community (all of the naturally occurring organisms within the system) together with the physical environment.
- Associated with or derived from living organisms. The biotic factors in an environment include the organisms themselves as well as such items as predation, competition for food resources, and symbiotic relationships.
- Compare abiotic
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Word History and Origins
Origin of biotic1
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That pre-biotic material could be a recipe for life in the subsurface pools.
When you do, she decides to drop the “tough biotic b----” act and finally be emotionally vulnerable with another human being.
This other doubt is a passionate doubt, it is the eternal conflict between reason and feeling, science and life, logic and biotic.
These contact zones are, in a special sense, the province of geography in both its physical and its biotic aspects.
Each of these has varying combinations of physical and biotic factors that are important in the ecology of amphibians.
The last is like that described for the Tamaulipan Biotic Province.
Within these zones certain ecologic communities can be recognized; these represent several biotic provinces.
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