organism

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But the method required splicing DNA of different organisms and using bacteria to propagate samples.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet most of that life is made up of very small organisms, raising a long-standing question about why large predators would linger there for so long.

From Science Daily

Without Osedax to break down bones and kick-start the ecological succession process, fewer organisms may be able to access nutrients stored in whale remains.

From Science Daily

Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral organisms and occupies a distinct position on a single, complex, prolifically branching, unfathomably extensive and largely invisible tree of life.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We had it. I always say this about culture, I always say this about a good team being a functioning organism.”

From Los Angeles Times