biomineralize

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English mineralize English biomineralize From bio- + mineralize.

1. To mineralize within a biological organism; e.g. to form bone (in vertebrates) or silica skeleton (in diatoms).

   “Instead, it seems more likely that this organism biomineralizes and arranges endogenous magnetite crystals in a highly controlled fashion within the cell where intracellular structural elements play a significant role in magnetosome, as has been shown for magnetotactic prokaryotes.”