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Physics has the concepts of mass and energy, and has the combined concept of space-time.
Similarly, biology has lots of information about biological structures (going from big body parts down to the atomic structure of complex molecules.
Additionally, there is a lot known about about biological function. How things work, as manifested by dynamic biological structure.
It is not surprising therefore to hear about structural-functional relationships in biology, but there is not a nice concise term like space-time for this.
Something that would denote a two sides of a coin kind of view of the one thing, the embodiment (or manifestation) of one in the other.
The best I can do is structure-function (or function-structure).
I guess I could use structure-function relationship, but it is a large and complex bunch or words and not too appealing to me. It could be abbreviated to SFR, but I try to avoid abbreviations for basic concepts (not always successful).
I am doing a solicitation of better terms that might work for this.
Similarly, biology has lots of information about biological structures (going from big body parts down to the atomic structure of complex molecules.
Additionally, there is a lot known about about biological function. How things work, as manifested by dynamic biological structure.
It is not surprising therefore to hear about structural-functional relationships in biology, but there is not a nice concise term like space-time for this.
Something that would denote a two sides of a coin kind of view of the one thing, the embodiment (or manifestation) of one in the other.
The best I can do is structure-function (or function-structure).
I guess I could use structure-function relationship, but it is a large and complex bunch or words and not too appealing to me. It could be abbreviated to SFR, but I try to avoid abbreviations for basic concepts (not always successful).
I am doing a solicitation of better terms that might work for this.