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Biotics describe living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals and plants.
Biotic may refer to:
- Life, the condition of living organisms.
- Biology, the study of life.
- Biotic material, which is derived from living organisms.
- Biotic components in ecology.
- Biotic potential, an organism's reproductive capacity.
- Biotic community, all the interacting organisms living together in a specific habitat.
- Biotic energy, a vital force theorized by biochemist Benjamin Moore.
- Biotic Baking Brigade, an unofficial group of pie-throwing activists.
See also
[edit]- Abiotic
- Antibiotics are agents that either kill bacteria or inhibit their growth.
- Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that stimulate the growth or activity of bacteria in the digestive system.
- Probiotics consist of a live culture of bacteria that inhibit or interfere with colonization by microbial pathogens.
- Synbiotics refer to nutritional supplements combining probiotics and prebiotics.