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n. - An association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another.

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  • So, and the notion of antibiosis is -- really only goes into the 19th century.
  • But right there is the borderline in our thinking about antibiosis.
  • The word probiosis originated from Greek: pro (for) and biosis (life), and is therefore opposite in meaning to antibiosis, promoting the proliferation of bacterial...
  • "Our research shows the Pioneer antibiosis rating system is working," Alt says.
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