A biomineralization process where the cellular activities of an organism directly control mineral nucleation and growth, the location of nucleation, and mineral morphology. The process may be extracellular, intercellular, or intracellular. Traditional definitions of minerals preclude a biological-process origin of minerals, but such definitions are being challenged, see the definition of “mineral” for a more classic approach.
Cf., mineral, biologically induced mineralization, biomineralization