amoeba
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"It's not fungi, it's not a plant, it's not animal. It's more closely related to an amoeba," Barry explains.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
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
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
Within hours, a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell, replicating viral genetic material outside the nucleus and assembling hundreds of new virus particles.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 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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