biological process vs assimilation

Other hyponyms of biological process include adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agglutination, ageing, aging, senescence, anovulation, antisepsis, asepsis, absorption, autoregulation, bacteriostasis, bloom, blooming, activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, carbon cycle, catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism, cell division, cellular division, crossing over, crossover, defoliation, deossification, digestion, eburnation, ecchymosis, effacement, erythropoiesis, eutrophication, evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny, expression, extravasation, gastrulation, glycogenesis, development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification, heredity, humification, epistasis, hypostasis, implantation, nidation, inhibition, infolding, introversion, intussusception, invagination, involution, cytokinesis, karyokinesis, keratinisation, keratinization, citric acid cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, Krebs cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle, lymphopoiesis, lysogenisation, lysogenization, maturation, maturement, ripening, metabolic process, metabolism, metabolism, metamorphosis, nitrogen cycle, nitrogen fixation, nondevelopment, nutrition, organification, ossification, ovulation, oxidative phosphorylation, birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition, pathologic process, pathological process, perennation, preservation, quellung, quellung reaction, quickening, regeneration, regulation, replication, reproduction, reabsorption, resorption, ageing, aging, ripening, secernment, secretion, segregation, shedding, sloughing, summation, symphysis, synapsis, synezesis, synizesis, transcription, transduction, translation, folding, protein folding, translocation, translocation, transpiration, tumefaction, ulceration, vascularisation, vascularization, blistering, vesication, vesiculation.