amoeba
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In fact, they immediately set themselves on the task of pleasing Carol and those like her, along with solving the riddle of their immunity, so they can absorb the stragglers into their joy amoeba.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
In the meter stick analogy, amplifying the signal makes the amoeba appear larger so that even coarse measurement markings can capture it accurately.
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
It was decades after decades of trying to contain something as organic as music, like forcing an amoeba to hold a shape.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
His doctor said that the amoeba - called Naegleria fowleri - likely entered his body from the water that had been contaminated by it.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024
And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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