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Definition of micro-environment in English: micro-environmentnoun Biology The immediate small-scale environment of an organism or a part of an organism, especially as a distinct part of a larger environment. Example sentencesExamples - Early people learned how to make fire and modify their micro-environments; rain dances and other rituals to alleviate droughts are part of our folklore.
- The individual itself always alters the micro-environment by its reaction to environmental factors, i.e. by its metabolism, and often just by its existence, such as by intercepting sunlight.
- In the alkaline micro-environment at the interface partial neutralisation of the film could occur resulting in a ‘leaky’ coat and thus allowing acid to penetrate and effect degradation.
- Each landscape has its own micro-environment.
- This distribution of gene expression suggests that different micro-environments exist within the granulomas, to which the bacilli are responsive, adopting different metabolic states.
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