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biological process
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | biological process - a process occurring in living organismsorganic processphysical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"adaption, adaptation, adjustment - the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)agglutination - a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)senescence, ageing, aging - the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing ageanovulation - the absence of ovulation due to immaturity or post-maturity or pregnancy or oral contraceptive pills or dysfunction of the ovaryantisepsis, asepsis - the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganismsassimilation, absorption - the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestionautoregulation - (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organismbacteriostasis - inhibition of the growth of bacteriabloom, blooming - the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity - an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity"carbon cycle - the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back againcatabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism, dissimilation - breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energycell division, cellular division - the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cellscrossing over, crossover - the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosisdefoliation - the loss of foliagedeossification - the loss of the mineral content of bone tissuedigestion - the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the bodyeburnation - a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivoryecchymosis - the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skineffacement - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during laborerythropoiesis - the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marroweutrophication - excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life; "he argued that the controlling factor in eutrophication is not nitrate but phosphate"organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny, evolution - (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organismsexpression - (genetics) the process of expressing a geneextravasation - the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urinegastrulation - the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cellsglycogenesis - the formation in animals of glycogen from glucosegrowing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification - the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)heredity - the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the nexthumification - the process of the formation of humus from plant remainsepistasis, hypostasis - the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated geneimplantation, nidation - (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammalsinhibition - (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"infolding, intussusception, invagination, introversion - the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" |
biological process
biological process A sequence of biological tasks accomplished via one or more ordered assemblies of molecular functions, which generally involve transformation—i.e., A and B enter and C and D come out.
Examples
Cell growth and maintenance, signal transduction, pyrimidine metabolism, cAMP biosynthesis.biological process
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