organism
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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The Brunet lab has played a leading role in establishing the killifish as a model organism.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
When fossil evidence existed for a particular organism, the scientists used its estimated age to anchor that branch of the tree.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
These are the instructions it needs to infect some other organism and to reproduce itself—the only things that viruses are any good at.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing organism
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Power Suffix: -ism
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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