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Which field chiefly studies organisms?

organism

[awr-guh-niz-uhm] / ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm /


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Then about 1.25 billion years ago, one of these photosynthesizing bacteria partnered with another one-celled organism to create green algae, one lineage of which became the ancestor of all plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

This organism, also nicknamed "sea vomit", is particularly harmful to coastal wildlife and economies.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The team also demonstrated that the device could successfully activate nerves in vivo, meaning within a living organism rather than only in an isolated laboratory setting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

A routine experiment involving a microscopic organism from a freshwater pond led scientists to an extraordinary genetic discovery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

The findings could help scientists better understand the global carbon cycle, which describes how carbon moves between the atmosphere, living organisms, oceans, and land.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

"These immune cells unleash chemical warfare against a pathogen, and organisms have evolved an elegant way of protecting healthy cells at the same time."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

For Domnauer, the hidden diversity found in these collections is a reminder that many species and potentially important biological characteristics remain undiscovered, even among organisms that scientists have already collected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The idea that illness was caused by microscopic organisms, such as bacteria and viruses, was not known at the time.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy


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