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Biota: The animal and plant life of a given region.
Biota: The sum total of the living organisms of any designated area.
Biota: The plants and animals of a specific region or period, or the total aggregation of organisms in the biosphere.
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Biota
The plant and animal life of a particular region or period.
Character
A heritable feature (e.g. tooth shape or DNA sequence) of a group of organisms that exists in multiple forms.
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biota All organisms in a given area.
biotechnology The use of living organisms to provide products for humanity; using genetic engineering to create organisms with useful traits.
biotic Of or relating to life.
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In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced.
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When the normal flora are disrupted, it shifts the mix of microbiota and can lead to disease. For example, the use of some broad-spectrum antibiotics can dramatically decrease the numbers of bacteria in the colon.
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Top image: Biota of a typical Devonian coral reef. Middle image: Cladoselache fyleri, a 3-foot shark, was one of the top predators in the Devonian seas. Bottom image: The goniatite Goldringia is at center.
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The theory specifically postulates that all of the earth's known biota are genealogically related, much in the same way that siblings or cousins are related to one another.
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