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A biological process is a process of a living organism. Biological processes are made up of any number of chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation. Many of these processes have psychological implications.
Regulation of biological processes occurs where any process is modulated in its frequency, rate or extent. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule.
- Physiological process, those processes specifically pertinent to the functioning of integrated living units: cells, tissues, organs, and organisms.
- Reproduction
- Digestion
- Response to stimulus, a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus.
- Interaction between organisms. the processes by which an organism has an observable effect on another organism of the same or different species.
- Also: fertilisation, tropism, hybridisation, metamorphosis.
See also[]
- Chemical process
- Organic reaction
- Chemical transformation
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