Different views about what consciousness is, qua cognitive process, and how it relates to other biological processes such as behavior, development and ecological interaction, largely determine biologically oriented views about which animals have consciousness and when, how, and why it evolved.
Molecular imaging methods, in particular, may yield personalized and real-time assays of biologically significant processes such as apoptosis.
The integration of two apparently disconnected biologically important processes, such as the maintenance of genome integrity and motility in a unique protein, may have important evolutive consequences.
In plants, the LRR proteins mediate protein-protein interaction and participate in many biologically important processes, such as hormone-receptor interactions, trafficking, plant development or organ differentiation [ 70].
Curved DNA is involved in many biologically important processes, such as transcription initiation and termination, recombination, DNA replication, and nucleosome positioning.
Biologically significant processes, such as endoreduplication and bypassing the normal mitotic cycle, cellulose synthesis facilitating cell wall deposition, as well as the stage-specific regulation of transcription factors were revealed.
3 However dynamics occurring on longer timescales, in the nano- to millisecond range, are potentially of greater functional interest, because many biologically important processes, such as enzyme catalysis, signal transduction, ligand binding and allosteric regulation are expected to occur on these timescales.
Although the U12-introns constitute a small fraction of all introns (<1%), they have been identified in various genes implicated in biologically important processes such as DNA replication and repair, transcription, translation, signal transduction and cell cycle control (Burge et al., 1998; Levine et al., 2001).
The powerful capabilities of optogenetic regulation can be very advantageous for the control of biologically relevant cellular processes, such as cell growth.
From this perspective, the term interact refers to a biological process, measuring environmental exposures in biologically meaningful ways and looking at processes such as gene expression.
