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organism

[awr-guh-niz-uhm] / ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm /


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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

In ecology, a niche refers to the role an organism plays within its environment, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with other species.

From Science Daily Jun. 22, 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

Tourists from Europe and Asia could see they were witnessing something real—a functioning human organism moved by a shared spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Every cell, and every organism, needs information to carry out its physiological function—but where does that information come from?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

One is synthesis: Whole genomes can already be built to order for simpler organisms, leaving mostly a manufacturing challenge of scale and cost.

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 specially designed organisms could potentially spread across Mars in algae-like layers within decades.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

At the center of the study is phosphorus, especially phosphate, a nutrient that marine organisms need to grow.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

Scientists never expected there to be any living organisms there because it was so hot and so poisonous, but there are whole ecosystems there.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon




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