organism
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DNA serves as the genetic blueprint for every living organism, but it is also an extraordinarily dense way to store information.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Funisia was a stationary, tube-shaped organism that lived in clusters of similarly sized individuals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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
They had earned the right to name the organism.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
When soil organisms were more active, they broke down the cotton more quickly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
If the ground becomes too cold or too dry, soil organisms become far less active.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some of these organisms can escape from spacesuits and habitats into the surrounding environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Because fossils of these early multicellular organisms are difficult to find, he studies the chemistry of ancient rocks to identify the environments most likely to have preserved them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bees live lives of organisms, tissues, cells, organelles, all at the same time.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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