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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

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

This organism can cause a rare but extremely deadly brain infection when contaminated water enters the nose, often during swimming or other recreational water activities.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2026

In the 1940s, University of Chicago economist Frank H. Knight devised a thought experiment called the Crusonia plant: a miraculous organism that, once planted, yields fruit year after year without any effort.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

And third, genes had to explain development: How could individual units of instruction prescribe the code to create a mature organism out of an embryo?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The process requires washing large amounts of the potentially tainted food to remove the cyclospora organisms, reducing the runoff, and then testing it to see if the parasite was present.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Made from amorphous silica, a form of silicon dioxide found naturally in foods and the fossilized remains of microscopic organisms, the engineered nanoparticles appear to attack prostate cancer in multiple ways at once.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

This included patients' information as well as biological resources known as pathogens - organisms that cause disease such as viruses, bacteria and parasites.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Viruses have threatened living organisms throughout evolutionary history.

From Science Daily Jun. 30, 2026

For Morgan, the principal mystery of organismal biology was not the gene but genesis: How did “units of heredity” enable the formation of animals and maintain the functions of organs and organisms?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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