Dictionary entry details
• ORGANIC PHENOMENON (noun)
Meaning:
(biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("organic phenomenon" is a kind of...):
natural phenomenon (all phenomena that are not artificial)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organic phenomenon"):
dominance (the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not)
food pyramid ((ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below)
food cycle; food web ((ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains)
gene expression (conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein)
histocompatibility (condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue)
life (the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones)
life cycle (a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage)
pleomorphism ((biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms)
polymorphism ((biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences))
recognition ((biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape)
rejection ((medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign)
greening; rejuvenation (the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored)
food chain ((ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member)
facilitation ((neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential)
diapedesis (passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue)
abiogenesis; autogenesis; autogeny; spontaneous generation (a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter)
alternation of generations; heterogenesis; xenogenesis (the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal)
annual ring; growth ring (an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow)
bioelectricity (electric phenomena in animals or plants)
circulation (movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels)
cyclosis; streaming (the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell)
death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)
decay; decomposition (the organic phenomenon of rotting)
dehiscence ((biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound)
desquamation; peeling; shedding (loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales)
exfoliation (the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin)
sex linkage (an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other)
