adj
Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
adj
Relating to actinologues
adj
(biology) Relating to, or characteristic of alkalibionts
adj
Pertaining to allomorphism or to allomorphs.
adj
Relating to allotones.
adj
Relating to, or recovering from, anabiosis.
adj
Relating to autoregeneration
n
Alternative spelling of aerotropism [(biology) The growth of an organism either towards, or away from a region of higher oxygen content.]
adj
Relating to, or composed of biological cells
adj
Relating to, or composed of biocolloids
n
The exclusion of a pathogen or disease from a group of organisms (a part of biosecurity)
adj
(biology) Describing any form of life based on the organic biopolymers present in all forms of life on Earth.
adj
Alternative form of chemogenetic [generated by chemical means]
adj
Of or pertaining to chemobiosis.
n
The continuous cultivation of cells (especially of microorganisms) in a chemostat
adj
(biology) chemotrophic and symbiotrophic
adj
Of or relating to chemotropism.
adj
(biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, resembling or derived from chlorophyll
adj
Relating to chromotypes; produced by chromotypy
adj
Relating to a copiotroph, or its environment
adj
Relating to cytobacteriology
adj
Relating to degeneration
adj
Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a dendrimer
adj
of or pertaining to an ectomorph
adj
Relating to electromorphs.
adj
(physics) Relating to ergotropy
n
(medicine) An exobiotic substance, especially one that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process.
adj
Relating to functionomes.
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to geotropism.
adj
(biology) Relating to harmomegathy
adj
(biology) Describing a lifecycle in which the organism is sometimes active and sometimes dormant
adj
Relating to hygrotaxis
adj
Pertaining to hylomorphism.
adj
(biology) Relating to idiophase
adj
Relating to lectinology.
adj
Pertaining to leptogenesis, the creation of leptons
adj
Of or pertaining to Joseph Lister, who pioneered the use of antiseptic in medical operations.
adj
Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
adj
(genetics) mechanical and genetic
adj
mechanical and metabolic
adj
Of or pertaining to mechanosynthesis.
adj
(biology) Relating to meliorbiosis
adj
Of or pertaining to a mesomorph.
adj
Of or pertaining to metallogenesis.
adj
Relating to metamorphology.
adj
Of or pertaining to a micronucleus.
adj
Of or relating to Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss physician and biologist, and the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid.
adj
Of or pertaining to minerogenesis.
adj
morphological and chemical
adj
Relating to morphostasis
adj
(crystallography) Of or pertaining to morphotropism
adj
Alternative form of optogenetic [generated by light]
adj
Relating to an organoheterotroph
adj
Relating to organolithotrophs
adj
Pertaining to an organon.
adj
(biology) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts
adj
Relating to pedogenesis
adj
(biology) Of a seed: having its germination affected by light, either positively or negatively.
adj
Exhibiting, or pertaining to, photogenesis.
adj
Related to photomorphogenesis
adj
Pertaining to phylodynamics
adj
Relating to physiogeny.
adv
With reference to prokaryotes
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to prototrophs
adj
Relating to a pseudomonomer.
adj
Of or pertaining to sociogenesis or to sociogenetics
adj
Relating to submicelles
adj
Relating to tecnomorphs.
adj
Relating to thermogenetics
n
the culture of tissue grown by this process
adj
Relating to trophodynamics
adj
Relating to xenocrysts.
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