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abiotically — adverb see abiotic … New Collegiate Dictionary
abiotically — adverb In an abiotic manner … Wiktionary
abiotic — abiotically, adv. /ay buy ot ik, ab ee /, adj. of or characterized by the absence of life or living organisms. Also, abiotical. [A 6 + BIOTIC] * * * … Universalium
abiotic — adjective Date: circa 1893 not biotic ; abiological < the abiotic environment > • abiotically adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
Panspermia — (Greek: πανσπερμία from πᾶς/πᾶν (pas/pan) all and σπέρμα (sperma) seed ) is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids and planetoids.[1] Panspermia proposes tha … Wikipedia
Nanobacterium — Structures found on meteorite fragment Allan Hills 84001 Nanobacterium (pl. nanobacteria) is the unit or member name of a proposed class of living organisms, specifically cell walled microorganisms with a size much smaller than the generally… … Wikipedia
Abiogenic petroleum origin — is a largely abandoned hypothesis that was proposed as an alternative to theory of biological petroleum origin. It was relatively popular in the past, but it went largely forgotten at the end of the 20th century after it failed to predict the… … Wikipedia
Protobiont — Protobionts are systems that are considered to have possibly been the precursors to prokaryotic cells. A protobiont is an aggregate of abiotically produced organic molecules surrounded by a membrane or a membrane like structure. Protobionts… … Wikipedia
Microbial metabolism — is the means by which a microbe obtains the energy and nutrients (e.g. carbon) it needs to live and reproduce. Microbes use many different types of metabolic strategies and species can often be differentiated from each other based on metabolic… … Wikipedia
Microbial loop — The microbial loop describes a trophic pathway in the marine microbial food web where dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is returned to higher trophic levels via the incorporation into bacterial biomass, and coupled with the classic food chain formed … Wikipedia
