Carbon compounds regulate the Earth's temperature, make up the food that sustains us, and provide energy that fuels our global economy. Most of Earth's carbon is stored in rocks and sediments. The rest is located in the ocean, atmosphere, and in living organisms. These are the reservoirs through which carbon cycles.
A it refers to the speed of the conversion to substrate
Well living is having life while biotic is pertaining, or produced by life or living organisms. :)
The endocrine gland that primarily controls the body's normal temperature as well as having it set to a homeostatic set point of 37 degrees Celsius is the hypothalamus, specifically, the anterior hypothalamus which primarily functions as a thermoregulator.