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organism

[awr-guh-niz-uhm] / ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm /


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The study highlights the importance of yeast as a model organism and points to RNP condensates as a critical survival mechanism.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The organism is a methane producing member of a group of microbes known as Archaea.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

In this sense, the Art of Fugue and the St. Matthew Passion were, for the evolving organism of human thought, feathered wings, apposing thumbs, new layers of frontal cortex.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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