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Something that is a living organism or a component of a living organism.
Potentially included among biotic components of environments are no longer living organisms.
Often we further differentiate the biotic components of environments into members of the same species (conspecifics) and members of different species, the latter together forming into a community.
See by contrast abiotic which together with the biotic components of environments form ecosystems.