organism

[ˈɔːrɡənɪzəm]

Definition:
1. A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently.
2. A system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body.

Use 'organism' in a sentence:

1. If conditions within an organism's environment occasionally or regularly become harsh, it may be advantageous for an organism to have a resistant stage built into the life cycle.
2. Maintenance for a given body design of an organism is relatively constant.
3. In 1890 he proposed that evolution was irreversible: that 'an organism is unable to return, even partially, to a previous stage already realised in the ranks of its ancestors'.
4. Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface ．
5. In comparison to the life span this relationship is "inverted": the larger the organism the lower its metabolic rate.
6. The material of which the organism is formed changes continuously.
7. The explanation is that each aspen while appearing to exist separately as a single tree, is in fact only the stem or shoot of a far larger organism.
8. But there might be places below ground where tiny organisms could scrape an existence.
9. It's basically the place or environment where an organism normally lives and grows.
10. The term chimaera refers to an organism which, like a mosaic, has more than one cell type.
11. Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy.
12. What's more, the network says that contrary to Ingham's claims, the EPA was never asked to consider the organism for field trials.
13. The weight of living organisms is called biomass.
14. If someone on a hike knocks a couple of rocks over, they could be unwittingly destroying a microclimate that an animal or organism relies on.
15. As Lawrence James says about the British variety in "The Middle Class: A History", they are "a sprawling, untidy organism in a perpetual state of evolution".
16. Although the same law holds for a living organism, the result of this law is not inexorable in the same way.
17. Ingham says EPA officials had told her that the organism was approved for field tests, but says she has few details.
18. In many organisms the male and female gametes are different.
19. The probability that actual remains of soft tissue will be preserved is improved if the organism dies in an environment of rapid deposition and oxygen deprivation.
20. Scientists have pulled together information on these curious organisms to highlight gaps in our knowledge.
21. Every organism has a life span which is highly characteristic.
22. The lungs may be infected as a result of the organisms moving along lymphatics into the venous blood.
23. Photoreactivation systems have been found in many organisms from bacteria to marsupials.
24. The sources of organisms that may contaminate the wound are numerous.
25. Germs invade the organism.
26. A coral reef is built by the accretion of tiny, identical organisms.
27. The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture.
28. These organisms reproduce parthenogenetically.
29. This is an organism that is potentially deadly to the continued survival of human beings.
30. Thus aging and death should not be seen as inevitable, particularly as the organism possesses many mechanisms for repair.
31. A group of thousands of aspens can actually constitute a single organism, called a clone, that shares an interconnected root system and a unique set of genes.
32. When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate ．
33. The ratio of oxygen-16 to oxygen-18 found in the calcite of a foraminifer's shell depends on the temperature of the water in which the organism lived.
34. Effluent from the sedimentation tank is dosed with disinfectant to kill any harmful organisms.
35. Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning.
36. It's also not clear whether the organism, first engineered by a German institute for biotechnology, is still in use.
37. Occasionally , a sequence of fossil-rich layers of rock permits a comprehensive look at one type of organism over a long period of time.
38. After the death of an organism, the soft tissue is ordinarily consumed by scavengers and bacteria.
39. The nature of the geographic separation necessary to isolate populations depends entirely on the biology of the organism and its potential for dispersal.
40. Bezanik is diving to collect marine organisms.
41. They compared how these organisms behaved when left in contact with different materials.
42. With active habitat selection, an organism is able to physically select where to live and breed.
43. Bioenergetics is defined as the study of energy transformation in living organisms.
44. The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed.
45. Many organisms that die in the sea are soon buried by sediment.
46. The organisms can be divided into discrete categories.
47. DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.
48. Remember, DNA is the genetic code for any organism.
49. Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.
50. Those organisms that are most suited to the environment will be those that will survive.
51. Not all chemicals normally present in living organisms are harmless.
52. Multiplication of cells leads to rapid growth of the organism.
53. Simple antibiotics are effective against this organism.
54. Proteins are biological macromolecules that are an essential component of organisms and participate in every process within cells.
55. The living organisms somehow concentrated the minerals by biological processes.
56. The continuation of biological rhythms in an organism without external cues attests to its having an internal clock.