What does biontic mean?
Biontic means (biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism..
The complete and accurate repetition of phyletic by biontic development is obliterated and abbreviated by secondary contraction, as ontogeny strikes out for itself an ever straighter course; accordingly, the repetition is the more complete the longer the series of young stages successively passed through.
There is no need to clutter the literature with more long Germanic compounds: suffice it to say that referring to the organism/habitat relationship as biontic, philic or xenic summarises the above arguments succinctly.
Soil contains biontic and abiontic lipids.
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Biontic means (biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism..
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The complete and accurate repetition of phyletic by biontic development is obliterated and abbreviated by secondary contraction, as ontogeny strikes out for itself an ever straighter course; accordingly, the repetition is the more complete the longer the series of young stages successively passed through.
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