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organism

(genetic biology)

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  • Grammar: noun
    plural:
    organisms
  • Definition: an individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus, which can carry out all of the functions of life
  • Example:
    1. The specialisation of cellular systems between the major evolutionary jumps led to increasing complexity of organisms.

    2. DNA can be transferred from organism to organism by mobile genetic elements.
  • Related Compound: microorganism


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