biochronometry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The scientific study of biological timekeeping, including the measurement of biological rhythms, life cycles, and time-dependent physiological processes in living organisms, such as circadian and circannual rhythms.

   “The Symposium on Biological Clocks in June 1960 at Cold Spring Harbor, organized under the chairmanship of C. S. Pittendrigh, contributed extensively to a crystallization of the concept of a biochronometry based on endogenous (circadian) periodicities.”