organic phenomenon
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1. (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals (noun.phenomenon)
| hypernym | : | natural phenomenon, |
| definition | : | all phenomena that are not artificial (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | dominance, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | annual ring, growth ring, |
| definition | : | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | bioelectricity, |
| definition | : | electric phenomena in animals or plants (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | circulation, |
| definition | : | movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | cyclosis, streaming, |
| definition | : | the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | death, |
| definition | : | the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | decay, decomposition, |
| definition | : | the organic phenomenon of rotting (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | dehiscence, |
| definition | : | (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | desquamation, peeling, shedding, |
| definition | : | loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | exfoliation, |
| definition | : | the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | diapedesis, |
| definition | : | passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | facilitation, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | food chain, |
| definition | : | (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | food pyramid, |
| definition | : | (ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | food cycle, food web, |
| definition | : | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | gene expression, |
| definition | : | conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | histocompatibility, |
| definition | : | condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | life, |
| definition | : | the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | life cycle, |
| definition | : | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | pleomorphism, |
| definition | : | (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | polymorphism, |
| definition | : | (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | polymorphism, |
| definition | : | (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | recognition, |
| definition | : | (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | rejection, |
| definition | : | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | greening, rejuvenation, |
| definition | : | the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored (noun.phenomenon) |
| hyponym | : | sex linkage, |
| definition | : | an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other (noun.phenomenon) |
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