free living
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Scientists have identified around 400 species of free-living amoebae, but only six are known to cause disease in humans - including Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba, both of which can infect the brain.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025
It’s also a parasite — because who needs to be free-living when you’re this fabulous?
From Salon • May 27, 2025
These power plants inside our cells descended from what were once free-living bacteria.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
The “remarkable” new study shows that this division of labor happens in free-living larval forms as well, says Ryan Hechinger, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
Every cell of your body is a kind of commune, with once free-living parts all banded together for the common good.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
