Biomorphe(Biotic form)

1. in botany – an exterior (habitus) of a plant reflecting its fitness to the environmental conditions. A unit of ecological classification of plants – a group of plants with similar adaptation structures not necessarily having allied relations - is also called B.f. B.f. of plants is changed in course of its individual progressing. One and the same kind of plants in various conditions can have various B.f.

2. in zoology, a concept of B.f. began to be applied only in 20th century and it has been designed not enough yet. At selection of B.f. and classification of organisms by them, the availability of alike physiological, behavioral, etc. adaptation means for inhabitation of similar environments is applied.