organism
生物体,有机体,机体,有机物
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- : a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- : a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
- : any organized body or system conceived of as analogous to a living being: the governmental organism.
- : any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.
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Many speakers railed against uncertainties in releasing genetically engineered organisms.
To understand sex completely, we need an explanation that goes back to the primordial soup of very early complex organisms and the immediate survival pressures they were under.
Cogdell wasn’t fully convinced at first that this approach would hold up for other photosynthetic organisms, such as the purple bacteria and green sulfur bacteria that live underwater and are named for the colors their pigments reflect.
Metabolisms are so low that these organisms can survive by consuming this ancient food matter.
“You can literally interpret the body of an organism as a guess about the structure of the environment,” Ramstead said.
He also wants to “replace every existing organism with a better one.”
“It is well established that a fetus is not a ‘person’; rather it is a sui generis organism,” the ruling stated.
They need to become streamlined: an organism that is basically very primitive.
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute produced the first living organism with synthetic bacteria this May.
WGA is classified as a lectin—a term for a protein produced by an organism to protect itself from predation.
The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.
The organism is a short, thick diplobacillus, is frequently intracellular, and is Gram-negative (Fig. 126).