organism
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Even rigorous sterilization cannot eliminate every hardy organism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
The community contained an unusual dominant organism, a very small predatory bacterium.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mendelsohn treated the parts of the building as if they were one thing, a single living organism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
My understanding is that this is because of the lifespan of the organism: It takes a while to develop into something infectious.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Any given organism is the way it is because of a long series of individually unlikely steps.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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As we pieced together the details of how organisms work, the problem was not so much solved as dissolved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Theory suggests organisms can sometimes adapt rapidly when their environments change quickly, but many wild plant populations do not appear to be keeping pace.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Many plants and basic organisms can sense things in their environments and change their behaviors accordingly, but this does not require them to have an awareness of their selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"The fact that we could never get these organisms into pure culture is probably because they always depend on other organisms to survive," he says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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