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Biological Entropy

Meaning

Biological entropy refers to the inherent, irreversible tendency of a living system to lose its organized structure and functional capacity over time, leading to senescence and eventual mortality. It represents the accumulation of molecular damage, cellular dysfunction, and the increasing disorder within the organism’s complex physiological networks. This concept is a direct biological parallel to the second law of thermodynamics, which governs increasing disorder in closed systems.