Biofact (biology)
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biofact-biology-272-4853936
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Biofact (biology)
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In biology, a biofact is dead material of a once-living organism. In 1943, the protozoologist Bruno M. Klein of Vienna (1891–1968) coined the term in his article Biofakt und Artefakt in the microscopy journal Mikrokosmos, though at that time it was not adopted by the scientific community. Klein's concept of biofact stressed the dead materials produced by living organisms as sheaths, such as shells. The word biofact is now widely used in the zoo/aquarium world, but was first used by Lisbeth Bornh
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Dead material of a once-living organism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact_(biology)
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2023-03-22T14:23:30Z
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