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organism

noun as in living thing

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Many speakers railed against uncertainties in releasing genetically engineered organisms.

To understand sex completely, we need an explanation that goes back to the primordial soup of very early complex organisms and the immediate survival pressures they were under.

Cogdell wasn’t fully convinced at first that this approach would hold up for other photosynthetic organisms, such as the purple bacteria and green sulfur bacteria that live underwater and are named for the colors their pigments reflect.

Metabolisms are so low that these organisms can survive by consuming this ancient food matter.

“You can literally interpret the body of an organism as a guess about the structure of the environment,” Ramstead said.

He also wants to “replace every existing organism with a better one.”

“It is well established that a fetus is not a ‘person’; rather it is a sui generis organism,” the ruling stated.

They need to become streamlined: an organism that is basically very primitive.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute produced the first living organism with synthetic bacteria this May.

WGA is classified as a lectin—a term for a protein produced by an organism to protect itself from predation.

The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.

The organism is a short, thick diplobacillus, is frequently intracellular, and is Gram-negative (Fig. 126).

The state is, therefore, an artificial organism for the promotion of individual and collective good.

There are other infective diseases, in which we have not yet found the causative micro-organism, but we presume its existence.

We do not know the cause of yellow fever despite the claims of Sanarelli that he has isolated the specific micro-organism.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to organism, such as: animal, creature, structure, being, body, and entity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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