Any process that results in 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 biotic stimulus, a stimulus caused or produced by a living organism. [ GOC:hb ]
Term information
gocheck_do_not_annotate, goslim_metagenomics, goslim_plant
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