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Created in an abiogenic manner; created without assistance of natural organisms or their processes.
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(biology) The diversification of species into separate forms that each adapt to occupy a specific environmental niche.
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Alternative form of anomalistic [anomalous]
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Alternative form of autapomorphic [(systematics) Describing any characteristic that has evolved in only a single species (or other taxon)]
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Relating to bimorphemes
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(biology, uncommon) A defining characteristic of an organism or group of organisms
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One who studies or works in the field of biocybernetics.
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The philosophy that biology plays a larger role in determining human psychology or development than social, economic, or environmental factors.
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Espousing, characteristic of, or related to bioessentialism.
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Relating to the evolution of biological organisms.
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Relating to a person's biology and genealogy.
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A subfield of gerontology that studies the biological processes of aging.
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(biology) The history of life and its development
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A person working in the field of biokinetics.
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(biology) The logging (tracking) of individual animals by means of attached tags
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The study of all life or living matter.
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(biology) A person who constructs biomodels
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(art) A surrealist art movement of the twentieth century that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology.
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An adherent of the orgone theory of Wilhelm Reich.
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A form of literary criticism that takes into account biopsychological processes.
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Of or pertaining to biopolitics.
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The political application of bioethics.
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(science fiction) A measurement of the presence and properties of a living thing.
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(medicine, dated) Life; vitality.
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(biology) Of or relating to a biospecies.
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(biology, taxonomy) taxonomy based upon statistical data of the evolution of organisms
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(biology, dated) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.
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A unit defined by a biological criterion, especially a region defined by its biodiversity.
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A person who is involved in chronobiology.
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Alternative spelling of co-adaptation [A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.]
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(taxonomy) Relating to cytotaxonomy
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Alternative form of cytotaxonomic [(taxonomy) Relating to cytotaxonomy]
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(biology) The study of the physiological changes that occurs within individual organisms from their conception through reaching physical maturity.
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(ecology) evolutionary ecology (the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology)
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Of or pertaining to ecomorphology
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(biology, ecology) An ecological morphospace
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(ecology) The phylogenetics of the organisms of an ecosystem
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(biology) A catalogue of the typical behaviour patterns of a species.
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(biology) Relating to ethomics
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(ecology) A collection of organisms of specific morphological, physiological, behavioral, biochemical properties.
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Alternative form of heterarchical [Of or pertaining to heterarchy]
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(social sciences) Tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups.
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(biology, including botany) The process of breeding a mixed offspring from two different strains or species of animal or plant
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Related to ichnotaxonomy
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(biology) Describing the evolution of an organism that does not give rise to a different species
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(biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
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Relating to mesoevolution
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Synonym of microevolutionary
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(evolutionary theory) A series of morphological transformations that occurs during the evolution of a species
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Abbreviation of morphology. [(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).]
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(countable) The form and structure of something.
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One who studies morphometrics.
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(taxonomy) Relating to morphotaxonomy
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(taxonomy) The taxonomy of morphotaxons
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Of or pertaining to neontology.
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Alternative form of normotypical [Relating to a normal type]
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Relating to ootaxonomy
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(biology, historical) orthogenesis
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(historical) One who supports the idea of orthogenesis.
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Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.
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Relating to changes in species over time
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The production or generation of nature.
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(geology) One which is composite, or consists of two or more monogenetic ranges, each having had its own history of development.
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Of or relating to protology.
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Of or pertaining to sociobiology
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(biology) Unusually rapid evolution.
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(taxonomy) Relating to zootaxonomy
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