Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or having to do with life or living organisms.
- adjective Produced or caused by living organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or treating of a biota, or the combined fauna and flora of a region or period: as, a biotic publication; a biotic region.
- Same as
biotical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Relating to life.
- adjective produced by or caused by living things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by
life or livingorganisms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to living organisms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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According to the pro-ID side, ID is not only science, but also the best explanation for certain biotic phenomena.
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Commonalities help us figure out important differences, and what if it turns out the similarities in biotic forms are to help us learn different architectures of information representation.
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What would be required is an observable analogy that things like the complexity we see in biotic system can be created through blind, non-intentional processes.
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It is reasonable to investigate the existince and implications of intelligent causation in biotic history, probably at the origin of life but also manifested in various evolutionary processes and biological facts (see Conway Morris here)
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Intelligent design theorists claim that design can be detected in biotic reality.
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In my early years as a pharmacist, I came across an interaction between a patient’s hypertension medicine, and a newly prescribed anti-biotic from a “skin doctor”.
Think Progress » Arizona Doctor Plans To Close His Office Because Of ‘Stress’ Caused By ‘Obamacare’ 2010
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This type of pollination is called biotic pollination.
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This type of pollination is called biotic pollination.
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"biotic" force is manifested, these colloidal or albuminous compounds are found.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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In 1999 the System of Inspection and Quarantine for Galapagos (SICGAL) tied in other Ecuadorean institutions to start to control biotic invasions such as canine distemper.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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