organism
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Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even rigorous sterilization cannot eliminate every hardy organism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Obviously, the environment or the milieu that surrounds an organism contributes to its physical attributes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Many such toxins are organic molecules produced by organisms as chemical weapons against predators or competing organisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Color lithographs of marine organisms drawn by the 19th-century zoologist Ernst Haeckel offer magical views of fantastically intricate flora and fauna—a huge influence on Ms. Van Herpen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Oaks support a wide range of organisms, anchoring entire ecosystems, and also serve the vital task of storing carbon on a warming planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the future, researchers could potentially explore these organisms as biological systems for converting gases into useful products, including methane and ammonia, with green hydrogen serving as an energy source.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
For a new species to arise, organisms must no longer be able to reproduce viably with each other.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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