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organism

[awr-guh-niz-uhm] / ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm /


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The researchers emphasize that studies involving aging animals are still necessary to establish the compound's effectiveness and safety in vivo, meaning within a living organism.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

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 emergence of extraordinary traits may depend not only on which genes an organism inherits, but also on how those genes are physically arranged and connected within the cell.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Question for the Notebook: When does the young human organism get a grasp of time?

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

If biological molecules or their chemical signatures can persist under the right conditions for more than 100 million years, scientists may need to reconsider where and how they look for evidence of ancient organisms.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

This approach involves searching for genetic traces left behind by organisms in their surroundings, potentially providing evidence of species and pathogens that were never directly collected.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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

Griffith’s and Muller’s experiments had pointed to a material substance, a chemical that could move between organisms and was quite easily altered by X-rays.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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