Biological defense

In biology,

• often biological defence mechanism, a form of adaptation that promotes the survivability of an organism by protecting it from its natural enemies.

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In law,

• a claim that some biological factor present in the defendant provides a defence against the accused crimes, as in the urban myth of the so-called Twinkie defense.