Sentence examples for biotic origin from inspiring English sources

(For additional information about diseases of biotic origin, see infection).

Therapeutic agents, paradoxically, also have become important factors in predisposing to disease of biotic origin and indeed in altering the incidence patterns of infectious disease.

We think that the large, continuous area of suitable substrate might play an important role for dirivultids to flourish at midocean ridges, but prevents them from colonizing relatively small patches of hard substrate of biotic origin (e.g. tubes, shells, bones, wood), which are surrounded by soft deep-sea sediments.

Autophagy may ensure the homeostatic regulation of miRNA-mediated RNA silencing by preventing blatant perturbations that could be induced by various stresses of abiotic or biotic origin.

Laminated carbonaceous concentrations at the surfaces of sedimentary bedding planes could be explained as sedimented detrital carbon (of abiotic or biotic origin, including floating microbial colonies, cf. Thompson et al., 1990), films of purely abiotic carbon, or microbial biofilms.

Despite the difficulty in detecting organics in situ on Mars, small quantities of methane (of abiotic and, possibly, biotic origin) have been detected by the SAM instrument on Curiosity (Webster et al., 2015), and there is evidence for organic carbon in martian meteorites (McKay et al., 1996; Grady et al., 2004; Steele et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2014).

However, chloroform (CF, trichloromethane), which is a common environmental pollutant that has both biotic and abiotic origins, reportedly inhibits microbial reductive dechlorination of chloroethene (Cappelletti et al. 2012).

This work has to a large part been motivated by biological research highlighting the potential importance of hybridization in the origin of biotic diversity, biological invasion and rapid adaptation [ 13- 27].

The possible role of such chemical enrichment of the solar system by stellar materials on the development of pre-biotic substances and the origin of life needs to be further explored.

Coevolutionary aesthetic theory provides a heuristic account of aesthetic change in both human and biotic artworlds, including the coevolutionary origin of aesthetic properties and aesthetic value within artworlds.

Although fossils inevitably underestimate the true age of divergences, these observations provide a better fit to a model that allows both prolonged biotic interchange between landmasses of Gondwanan origin, and a Late Cretaceous connection of Indo-Madagascar and Australia-New Guinea with South East Asia.