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View definitions for living thing

living thing

noun as in animal

noun as in being

noun as in creature

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"We hope to make more progress in understanding the complex mechanisms that give rise to the forms of living things."

DNA and Cloning Every living thing has DNA – a special code that tells it how to grow.

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most living things.

Food safety will “never be perfect because pathogens are living things and all systems fail,” she continued.

However, humans cannot get these benefits from individual species - a rich variety of living things must work together in tandem.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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