How to Use biotic in a Sentence

biotic

adjective
  • All meat and eggs in Plates are hormone- and anti-biotic-free.
    — Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That pre-biotic material could be a recipe for life in the subsurface pools.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
  • When the researchers added biotic sounds, from living beings, to the water sounds, people liked them even more.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Hoover makes several claims to show that a non-biotic origin for these structures is very unlikely.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2011
  • Kooyman said—an area that serves as a sort of biotic bomb shelter where species can survive geologic upheaval.
    — Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Forest fires are capable of destroying homes of animals and could kill more biotic life.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The time young sharks spend in nurseries depends on both biotic and abiotic factors that aren't fully understood.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • These are all a set of models which emphasize the abiotic selective pressures on life forms, as opposed to the biotic ones.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
  • The former are biotic and the latter are abiotic variables which shape the diversity and topology of the tree of life.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2011
  • Things like eating a macro-biotic vegan diet or burning sage, keeping crystals, reading tarot cards or your horoscope.
    — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Others have slid into biotic civil war, with more savage outbreaks and harsher suppression.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2013
  • Plant issues are usually caused by either abiotic or biotic stressors.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
  • On the bottom of just about everyone’s list are fungi, the Rodney Dangerfields of the biotic world.
    — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • But more importantly, the trail traverses a distinct series of biotic communities, from desert scrub to desert grassland to pine-oak woodland.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye and oats are some of the grasses that can be self-pollinated but also utilize biotic and abiotic (wind) pollinators.
    — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • So the two classes of variables do influence each other, insofar as biotic dynamism surges in the wake of an abiotic perturbation.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2011
  • Unlike Guardians, Cloud Striders have a limited lifespan of around 10 years due to a biotic implant that shortens their lives.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Now the closest look yet at events 252 million years ago is linking those eruptions even more closely not only to the biotic cataclysm in the sea but also to the mass extinction on land.
    — Sciencenow, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2011
  • While observed on redcedars experiencing dieback, biotic factors like insects and fungi were estimated by researchers to be secondary to drought as the leading cause of tree illness and death.
    — Nathan Gilles, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The expedition’s findings were later written up in 13 volumes that provide a biotic baseline still referenced today.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The abyssal plains are strewn with mineral nodules that coalesce around biotic seeds such as sharks' teeth, accumulating cobalt and other metals integral to lithium-ion batteries.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • As Wandel posits, biotic planets like ours may be exceedingly common in the universe, and intelligent species studying them would not pay a whole lot of attention to just one more green and living world.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary history of insect body size.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2012
  • The probiotic in our pro-biotic dietary supplement has been biotransformed by gut bacteria into active metabolites for human health.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • The multiple lines of evidence discovered in this study are essential to reconstructing the causes of post-impact biotic response and extinction patterns.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The biotic and abiotic elements that render Socotra so unique have existed and evolved there for millions of years, many remaining effectively unchanged in this time.
    — Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Dual biotic simply means a product combines two gut-health-supporting ingredients together, such as prebiotics and postbiotics.
    — Ryan Brennan may 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, the dual biotic sodas contain prebiotics, four kinds of postbiotics and 3 grams (3,000mg) of fiber per can while remaining low in sugar and calories.
    — Ryan Brennan may 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
  • The brain is a biotic organ, embedded in a continuum of natural causes and connections that together contribute to our biological minds.
    — Joe Peterburger, National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The classes do studies on biotic and abiotic components and activities designed for general observations in the school's outdoor classroom spaces.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023

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