organism
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Earlier in its evolutionary history, the organism appears to have possessed two eyes or at least two groups of cells capable of detecting light.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
"Our findings show that, across different organism groups, extinctions happened at much higher rates for those more vulnerable to increases in water temperature and decreases in oxygen availability."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The term is less taxonomically specific and more of a catchall, used to refer to any photosynthesizing organism that isn’t a plant.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
The organism that is a firm has collections of workers who have process knowledge that is held collectively across the whole workforce and its supply chain.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
An organism must be careful that it is not carried down and fried.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Giant sequoias are among the largest and longest-lived organisms on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
When that proved too difficult, he switched to experimenting with single-celled organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Like Mr. Jones, Mr. Woolfson is struck by the spectacular range of organisms that could in principle exist, of which evolution has realized only an “infinitesimally small sampling.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
These findings suggest that some sweeteners are not simply inactive substances that pass through the digestive tract without interacting with the organisms living there.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Bees live lives of organisms, tissues, cells, organelles, all at the same time.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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