biocode

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.

   • The most valuable innovation of the new API 20C was the development of the biocode system.
   • Pettitt (1990) has advocated the use of sort/search codes to aid the computerisation of specimen records, and Heppell (1990) has outlined a biocode system for taxonomic names.
   • A prerequisite for such a biocode is to compile a list of all valid names for living and extinct beings.
2. 2

   A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data

   A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.

   • Based on the coded values for sensitivity or resistance to the six chemicals, a six-digit biocode or profile was prepared.
   • These scores are added to generate a biocode that can be matched to a database of biocodes to give the identity of the organism tested.
3. 3

   An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.

   • The number given before the generic name is the biocode used in the museum for cataloguing purposes.
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      The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.

      • "God code doesn't necessarily prove that God exists,” Schiller explained. “The God code is merely a massive compilation of thousands of different biocodes that have been collected by Tento's main bioscanner at TIS."
   2. 5

      Alternative form of bio-code.

      • The stirring of the cognitive potential means that the biocodes within the body-mind organism are made to respond to the demands of the communicational setting.
      • However, the government's plan to manage and control individual biocodes, such as fingerprints, will likely cause controversy.
   3. 6

      Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.

      • A variety of other biocodes such as ozone may prove to be advantageous in RO systems but have not been adequately studied.
      • Basic preparatory activities aimed to preserve archaeological wood are usually either biocode or stabilizing conservation methods (Dyrkowa, Jagielska 1981).
      • NACWA has also been a participant in discussions with EPA on pennethrin-impregnated clothing and copper and silver biocodes that may create problems for aquatic life.
   4. 7

      To encode using biological signals or markers.

      • In fact, then there is no reason why complex carbohydrates should shy at competition with nucleic acids and proteins for the top spot in high-density biocoding.
      • The hormone, then, operates according to a logic of tele-action: the capacity to modify an organ by the emission of biocoded information from some distance away.
      • Complex carbohydrates are built for high-density biocoding, which is at par with proteins and nucleic acids and their role and importance is widely being recognized.
   5. 8

      To classify biological organisms by assigning biocodes to them.

      • And the money's still flooding in, there'll be biocoding work for the next decade.
      • Already the first efforts at 'barcoding' entire ecological communities and creating 'genomic observatories' have begun. The future, the authors argue, will involve biocoding the entire planet.
   6. 9

      A unified code for taxonomic nomenclature first proposed in 1997.

      • In the light of the proposed BioCode (see Greuter et al. 1998) would culton be a suitable term for domesticated "taxa" of biology in general?
      • Others, however, argue that the BioCode would increase nomnclatural instability and generate confusion by the use of new rules and name changes (Brummitt 1996).

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