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Adjective: biogenic  ,bI-ow'je-nik
  1. Essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes
    "sleep and food and water are among the biogenic needs of the organism"
     
  2. Produced by living organisms or biological processes
    "fermentation is a biogenic process"

See also: essential

Encyclopedia: Biogenic