English > organic phenomenon: 1 sense > noun 1, phenomenon| Meaning | (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals. |
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| Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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| Narrower | abiogenesis, autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation | A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter |
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| alternation of generations, heterogenesis, xenogenesis | The alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal |
| annual ring, growth ring | An annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
| bioelectricity | electric phenomena in animals or plants |
| circulation | movement through a circuit |
| cyclosis, streaming | The circulation of cytoplasm within a cell |
| death | The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism |
| decay, decomposition | The organic phenomenon of rotting |
| dehiscence | (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue |
| desquamation, peeling, shedding | Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales |
| diapedesis | passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue |
| dominance | The organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not |
| exfoliation | The peeling ... / peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin |
| facilitation | (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential |
| food chain | (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member |
| food pyramid | (ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top |
| food web, food cycle | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
| gene expression | conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein |
| histocompatibility | condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue |
| life | The organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones |
| life cycle | A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
| pleomorphism | (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms |
| polymorphism | (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) |
| polymorphism | (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on |
| recognition | (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape |
| rejection | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign / foreign |
| rejuvenation, greening | The phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored |
| sex linkage | An association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics / characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other |
| Broader | natural phenomenon | All phenomena that are not artificial |
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| Spanish | fenómeno orgánico |
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| Catalan | fenomen orgànic |
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