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Meaning of biomineralize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To mineralize within a biological organism; e.g. to form bone (in vertebrates) or silica skeleton (in diatoms).

Examples

Instead, it seems more likely that this organism biomineralizes and arranges endogenous magnetite crystals in a highly controlled fashion within the cell where intracellular structural elements play a significant role in magnetosome, as has been shown for magnetotactic prokaryotes.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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