Crossword clues for biota
biota
- Plants and animals of a region
- Regional plant and animal life
- Regional animal and plant life
- What lives and grows in a region - from Africa to Iberia - keeled over
- Region's flora and fauna in book by Greek character
- The animal and plant life of a region or period
- Regional animal life
- Organisms of a region
- Regional organisms
- Regional life forms
- Flora + fauna
- What a rain forest is rich in
- Living things in a certain region
- Life forms of a region
- Conservation-area concern
- Local life forms, collectively
- Flora and fauna of a region
- Plant and animal life
- Regional flora and fauna
- Ecological group
- Regional life, collectively
- Life of a region
- That's life
- Fauna and flora of a region
- All the plant and animal life of a particular region
- Natural life of a region
- Part of an ecosystem
- Plant life
- Vegetation of an area
The Collaborative International Dictionary
biota \bi*o"ta\ n. (b[imac]*[=o]"t[.a]), all the plant and animal life of a particular region.
Syn: biology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1901, from Greek biota "life" (see bio-).
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) The living organisms of a region.
WordNet
n. all the plant and animal life of a particular region [syn: biology]
Wikipedia
Biota may refer to:
- Biota (ecology), the plant and animal life of a region (not planet earth but a particular region e.g. Tropical region)
- Biota (taxonomy), a superdomain in taxonomy
- Biota (plant), an evergreen coniferous tree, Platycladus orientalis
- Biota (band), an avant-prog band from Colorado, USA
- A synonym for artificial life organizations
- Biota!, a planned aquarium operated by Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in East London
- Biota, Cinco Villas, a municipality in Aragon, Spain
- Biota Holdings, an Australian biotech company
In systems of scientific classification, Biota is the superdomain that classifies all life. For that reason it is often disputed how the taxon should be further divided, as the definition of "what life really is" is often changed or adjusted, and also if extraterrestrial life would be included besides the life on Earth, if extraterrestrial life is discovered. In general, all cellular life is naturally included in the Biota; when there is mention of non-cellular life the taxon Biota is most often simply divided into Cytota (cellular life) and Acytota (non-cellular life).
Historically, what was not mineralia (i.e. minerals), could also be referred to as biota (i.e., fauna, fungi and flora).
Biota is an American avant-rock musical collective that has produced numerous albums since their beginnings in the late 1970s − including their latest, Funnel to a Thread (released in 2014). Biota is known for its highly detailed and often radical compositional approach, which involves extensive electronic processing of myriad acoustic sound sources, often blending and coalescing folk, jazz, chamber, and rock idioms, among other music forms. In a review of their 1995 album, Object Holder, David Newgarden wrote "Biota is not even remotely like any other group I can think of."
Usage examples of "biota".
Hillis described the biota, speaking just loud enough for the patch recorder on his collar to pick up and record.
Time was, Vanda had been the main base solely for Space Recon and the giant corporate enterprises feeding on it: Biotime, Timeco, Alpha One, those gallant companies of exploration, mining the galaxy for biota, bringing home the green.
Precursors had played a stupendous prank on themthe biota of Desideratum were derivatives or forerunners of those on Agora.
Human beings could eat that predator if they wanted to, and most of its prey, and a lot of the biota in general .
The probe subsequently strongly suggested but could not confirm the presence on the two main land masses of a biota of consequence.
His specialized internal biota seem more closely related to the kinds of organisms one would be likely to encounter in the vicinity of the equator.
The rest of his remarkable internal biota seems not only benign, but quite healthy.
I figure their systems have to be used to whatever biota will develop by the time they reach Crete.
I populated an entire planet of our closest stellar neighbor with a complete Mesozoic biota.
The exhibits were devoted to Europan biota, most of which depended on the ecological niches of the hydrothermal vents, carefully reproduced here.
The biota of Mingulay, like that of all the other Earthlike planets of the Second Sphere, shared a common terrestrial ancestry but had, over megayears, diverged in unique and interesting ways.
Haraldson’s edicts cover destruction of biotas, but killing the Timmys didn’t kill the biota.
Haraldson's edicts cover destruction of biotas, but killing the Timmys didn't kill the biota.
For that reason, races, biotas and civilizations consistently collapse here-and stars keep exploding.
Borazjani was a small dark-skinned white-haired man, speaking with a pointer before a large screen, which was now showing video images of the various heating methods that had been tried: black dust and lichen on the poles, the orbiting mirrors that had sailed out from Luna, the moholes, the greenhouse gas factories, the ice asteroids burning up in the atmosphere, the denitrifying bacteria, and then all the rest of the biota.