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• a  of or relating to living organisms

• But, he adds, "In all the pre-biotic experiments conducted in our laboratory, we got both lefthanded and righthanded amino acids.
• biotic potential of soils is not a constant but rather a function of advancing science applied to both crops and soils .
• Though the Colts released a statement on Friday insisting Manning didn't contract a more perilous staph, the anti-biotic resistant strain known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant .

News & Articles

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• Life's 'Left-Handed' Amino Acids Remain Astrobiological Head-Scratcher
  Did life?s predilection for so-called ?left-handed? amino acids evolve as a quirk of prebiotic chemistry here on earth? Or did biomolecules? reliance on single ?chirality? or handedness actually have more offworld origins?
  June 30, 2013 - Forbes
• Life's 'Left-Handed' Amino Acids Still A Puzzle
  Did life?s predilection for so-called ?left-handed? amino acids evolve as a quirk of prebiotic chemistry here on earth? Or did biomolecules? reliance on single ?chirality? or handedness actually have more offworld origins?
  June 30, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Brian Perry in United Press International
  Desjardin and Perry said they named the new species after Drewes as an acknowledgment of his "inspiration and fortitude to initiate, coordinate and lead multiorganism biotic surveys on Sao Tome and Principe."
• Gerta Keller in National Science Foundation (press release)
  In all these localities we can analyze their microfossils in the sediments directly above and below the Chicxulub impact layer, and cannot find any significant biotic effect,said Keller. "We cannot attribute any specific extinctions to...