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Biotic material

Index Biotic material

Biotic material or biological derived material is any material that originates from living organisms. [1]

78 relations: Abyssal plain, Acquired characteristic, Activated sludge, Agricultural pollution, Air pollution in the United States, Alternative fuel, Archaea, Astrobiology, Bio-based material, Biodiversity, Biogeology, Biological material, Biomineralization, Biorepository, Biosphere, Biotic, Calculus (medicine), Cecil Edmund Yarwood, Cholera, Coal, Cosmic Calendar, Cupuaçu, Detritus, Earliest known life forms, Earth, Ecological Building, Eurofins Scientific, European Physical Journal E, Evolution, Evolutionary history of life, Excimer laser, Extraterrestrial life, Fossil, Geology of the Death Valley area, Grassland degradation, Hadean, History of Earth, Humic acid, Humus, ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, ICD-10 Chapter XVIII: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, ICD-10 Chapter XX: External causes of morbidity and mortality, Incense, Introduction to evolution, Jack Hills, Lake, Life, Life on Mars, Lithotroph, Marine life, ..., Markus J. Buehler, Megacity, Microarray, Milwaukee Public Museum, Mineral, Mitigation of peak oil, Natural material, Natural product, Natural resources of Cambodia, Natural resources of India, Organic matter, Outline of ecology, Panspermia, Pedogenesis, Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances, Pollution in the fashion industry, Rachel Carson, Resource, Silent Spring, Soil carbon, Soil organic matter, Taphonomy, Therapy, Timeline of natural history, Timeline of the evolutionary history of life, Yamato 000593, Zircon, 2014 in science. Expand index (28 more) »

Abyssal plain

An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between and.

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Acquired characteristic

An acquired characteristic is a non-heritable change in a function or structure of a living biotic material caused after birth by disease, injury, accident, deliberate modification, variation, repeated use, disuse, or misuse, or other environmental influences.

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Activated sludge

The activated sludge process is a type of wastewater treatment process for treating sewage or industrial wastewaters using aeration and a biological floc composed of bacteria and protozoa.

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Agricultural pollution

Agricultural pollution refers to biotic and abiotic byproducts of farming practices that result in contamination or degradation of the environment and surrounding ecosystems, and/or cause injury to humans and their economic interests.

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Air pollution in the United States

Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or damages the natural environment into the atmosphere.

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Alternative fuel

Alternative fuels, known as non-conventional and advanced fuels, are any materials or substances that can be used as fuels, other than conventional fuels like; fossil fuels (petroleum (oil), coal, and natural gas), as well as nuclear materials such as uranium and thorium, as well as artificial radioisotope fuels that are made in nuclear reactors.

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Archaea

Archaea (or or) constitute a domain of single-celled microorganisms.

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Astrobiology

Astrobiology is a branch of biology concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

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Bio-based material

A bio-based material is a material intentionally made from substances derived from living (or once-living) organisms.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biogeology

Biogeology is the study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere.

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Biological material

Biological material may refer to.

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Biomineralization

Biomineralization is the process by which living organisms produce minerals, often to harden or stiffen existing tissues.

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Biorepository

A biorepository is a biological materials repository that collects, processes, stores, and distributes biospecimens to support future scientific investigation Biorepositories can contain or manage specimens from animals, including humans, and many other living organisms.

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Biosphere

The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Biotic

Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals and plants.

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Calculus (medicine)

A calculus (plural calculi), often called a stone, is a concretion of material, usually mineral salts, that forms in an organ or duct of the body.

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Cecil Edmund Yarwood

Cecil Edmund Yarwood (1908–1981) was an American-Canadian plant pathologist whose work focused on obligate parasites of plants, viruses, and conditions that predisposed plants to infections.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cosmic Calendar

The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

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Cupuaçu

Cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), also spelled cupuassu, cupuazú, cupu assu, and copoasu, is a tropical rainforest tree related to cacao.

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Detritus

In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material (as opposed to dissolved organic material).

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Earliest known life forms

The earliest known life forms on Earth are putative fossilized microorganisms found in hydrothermal vent precipitates.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Ecological Building

Ecological Building is both a design process and the structure that is a result of such a design process.

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Eurofins Scientific

Eurofins is an international group of laboratories headquartered in Brussels, providing testing and support services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental, agriscience and consumer products industries, L'Usine nouvelle n° 2965, 26.05.2005 and to governments.

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European Physical Journal E

The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics is a scientific journal focusing on the physics of soft matter and biophysics.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Evolutionary history of life

The evolutionary history of life on Earth traces the processes by which both living organisms and fossil organisms evolved since life emerged on the planet, until the present.

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Excimer laser

An excimer laser, sometimes more correctly called an exciplex laser, is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic devices, semiconductor based integrated circuits or "chips", eye surgery, and micromachining.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Geology of the Death Valley area

The exposed geology of the Death Valley area presents a diverse and complex set of at least 23 formations of sedimentary units, two major gaps in the geologic record called unconformities, and at least one distinct set of related formations geologists call a group.

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Grassland degradation

Grassland degradation, also called vegetation or steppe degradation is a biotic disturbance in which grass struggles to grow or can no longer exist on a piece of land due to causes such as overgrazing, burrowing of small mammals, and climate change.

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Hadean

The Hadean is a geologic eon of the Earth predating the Archean.

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History of Earth

The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day.

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Humic acid

Humic acids are the result of a severe chemical extraction from the soil organic matter, and recently their natural existence was jeopardized, since it is a product of the chemical procedure.

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Humus

In soil science, humus (derived in 1790–1800 from the Latin humus for earth, ground) denominates the fraction of soil organic matter that is amorphous and without the "cellular cake structure characteristic of plants, micro-organisms or animals." Humus significantly affects the bulk density of soil and contributes to its retention of moisture and nutrients.

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ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

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ICD-10 Chapter XVIII: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

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ICD-10 Chapter XX: External causes of morbidity and mortality

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

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Incense

Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned.

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Introduction to evolution

Evolution is the process of change in all forms of life over generations, and evolutionary biology is the study of how evolution occurs.

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Jack Hills

The Jack Hills are a range of hills in Mid West Western Australia.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Life

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.

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Life on Mars

The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of significant interest to astrobiology due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.

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Lithotroph

Lithotrophs are a diverse group of organisms using inorganic substrate (usually of mineral origin) to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis (e.g., carbon dioxide fixation) or energy conservation (i.e., ATP production) via aerobic or anaerobic respiration.

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Marine life

Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.

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Markus J. Buehler

Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Megacity

A megacity is a very large city, typically with a total population in excess of 10 million people.

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Microarray

A microarray is a multiplex lab-on-a-chip.

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Milwaukee Public Museum

The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) is a natural and human history museum located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.

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Mitigation of peak oil

The mitigation of peak oil is the attempt to delay the date and minimize the social and economic effects of peak oil by reducing the consumption of and reliance on petroleum.

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Natural material

A natural material is any product or physical matter that comes from plants, animals, or the ground.

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Natural product

A natural product is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism—that is, found in nature.

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Natural resources of Cambodia

Natural resources are materials that occur in a natural form within environments.

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Natural resources of India

Resources are classified as either biotic or abiotic on the basis of their origin.

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Organic matter

Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter (NOM) refers to the large pool of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial and aquatic environments.

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Outline of ecology

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ecology: Ecology – scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment.

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Panspermia

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms.

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Pedogenesis

Pedogenesis (from the Greek pedo-, or pedon, meaning 'soil, earth,' and genesis, meaning 'origin, birth') (also termed soil development, soil evolution, soil formation, and soil genesis) is the process of soil formation as regulated by the effects of place, environment, and history.

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Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances

Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances (PBTs) are a class of compounds that have high resistance to degradation from abiotic and biotic factors, high mobility in the environment and high toxicity.

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Pollution in the fashion industry

The fashion industry is the second largest polluting industry in the world, behind only fossil fuel energy production.

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

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Resource

A resource is a source or supply from which a benefit is produced.

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Silent Spring

Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson.

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Soil carbon

Soil carbon includes both inorganic carbon as carbonate minerals, and as soil organic matter.

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Soil organic matter

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the organic matter component of soil, consisting of plant and animal residues at various stages of decomposition, cells and tissues of soil organisms, and substances synthesized by soil organisms.

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Taphonomy

Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized.

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Therapy

Therapy (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis.

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Timeline of natural history

This timeline of natural history summarizes significant geological and biological events from the formation of the Earth to the arrival of modern humans.

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Timeline of the evolutionary history of life

This timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth.

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Yamato 000593

Yamato 000593 (or Y000593) is the second largest meteorite from Mars found on Earth.

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Zircon

Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates.

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2014 in science

A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2014, including the first robotic landing on a comet and the first complete stem-cell-assisted recovery from paraplegia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_material

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