This article lists the largest organisms for various types of life and mostly considers extant species, which found on Earth can be determined according...
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Microorganism (redirect from Micro-organism)
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence...
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Cyborg (redirect from Cybernetic organism)
known as cybernetic organism, cyber-organism, cyber-organic being, cybernetically enhanced organism, cybernetically augmented organism, technorganic being...
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"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper...
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Last universal common ancestor (redirect from Ur-organism)
research. All earlier forms of life preceding this divergence and all extant organisms are generally thought to share common ancestry. On the basis of a formal...
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Animorphs (redirect from Marco (Animorphs))
announced in 2020. The story revolves around five teenage humans: Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (nicknamed...
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ancestor (FUCA) is a proposed non-cellular entity that was the earliest organism with a genetic code capable of biological translation of RNA molecules...
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of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." "Spandrels" were described as features of an organism that exist...
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Macroevolution (redirect from Marco-evolution)
factor that is independent from and complementary to selection among organisms. Accordingly, the level of selection has become the conceptual basis of...
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themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes...
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Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol Michael Coates, Chair and Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago Steve Brusatte, Professor...
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Largest prehistoric animals (redirect from Largest Prehistoric organisms)
precambrian organisms. The largest known Permian sponge Gigantospongia had diameter up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in). Dinosaur size Largest organisms Megafauna...
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In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g., species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor...
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properties similar to the pleuropneumonia organism (PPO) of cattle, soon came to be known as pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO), but their true nature remained...
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Corn smut (section Model organism)
corn smut. The yeast-like growth of U. maydis makes it an appealing model organism for research, although its relevance in nature is unknown. The fungus is...
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Marco Mario Paolo Casagrande (born 7 May 1971) is a Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, former mercenary, writer and professor...
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Parasitism (redirect from Parasitic organisms)
close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted...
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Macrocystis (redirect from Fastest Growing Organism)
phytohormone-like substances. Macrocystis pyrifera is one of the fastest-growing organisms on Earth.: 8 They can grow at a rate of 60 cm (2 ft) a day to reach over...
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An obligate aerobe is an organism that requires oxygen to grow. Through cellular respiration, these organisms use oxygen to metabolise substances, like...
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German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Bavaria. Thines, Marco; Denton, Geoffrey J.; Beal, Elizabeth J.; Kilty, Anne; Denton, Jennifer...
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Columbian exchange (section Organism examples)
16th to 19th centuries Transformation of culture McNeill, J. R.; Sampaolo, Marco; Wallenfeldt, Jeff (September 30, 2019) [28 September 2019]. "Columbian...
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of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Adaptationism is a point of view that sees most organismal traits...
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List of The 4400 characters (redirect from Marco Pacella)
instead. Shawn has the ability to control the flow of life in living organisms, usually manifesting itself through healing physical damage done to the...
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includes organisms whose common or scientific names are drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas. When the common name of the organism in English...
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intestinal tract of vertebrate animals, it was designated as a nomadic organism. L. plantarum is Gram positive, bacilli shaped bacterium. L. plantarum...
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Description Chronovoid Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996) Communal organism that looks like an ovoid blob of gelatinous matter. Temporal Dog Monstrous...
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environment of the organism. The theory was developed in the 1950s and is used to answer questions about topics such as organism size, age of maturation...
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March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2024. A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host...
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parasitism. Some speculate humans can be similarly exploited by junk food. Organisms tend to show a preference for the stimulus properties (e.g. size, colour...
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that removes excess, unnecessary materials from the body fluids of an organism, so as to help maintain internal chemical homeostasis and prevent damage...
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