Organism
Organic structure; organization.
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
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Organism Quotations
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
Jeremy Rifkin
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
Francis Crick
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger
Organism Translations
organism in Dutch is organisme
organism in French is organisme
organism in German is Organismus
organism in Hungarian is szervezet, organizmus
organism in Italian is organismo
organism in Portuguese is organismo
organism in Spanish is organismo
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