organismor‧gan‧is‧m /ˈɔːɡənɪzəm $ ˈɔːr-/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.2a system made up of parts that are dependent on each other: A society is essentially an organism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Food poisoning is caused by a bacterial organism.
- Genetic engineers manipulate living organisms such as cells or bacteria to create products which fight disease.
- The human body is a very complex organism.
- A network, or society, of very simpleminded decision-making centers like these formed an organism that exhibited remarkable agility and adaptability.
- Art is not a machine, he wrote, and it is not an organism.
- Ecologies and organisms have always been grown.
- From the start, resistant organisms have appeared.
- In this respect they share a property of living organisms.
- Obviously, organisms that form beliefs based on accurate perceptions of the environment will survive better than organisms that form inaccurate beliefs.
- Questions about life are conventionally questions about organisms.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that is alive
a human, animal, plant, or anything that is alive: · An ocean is full of living things.· The tree, at 368 feet, is considered the world's tallest living thing.· Ecology is the study of how living things relate to their environment.
a living thing or one type of living thing - used in scientific or technical contexts: · Hobart is convinced that there are life forms on other planets.· Some scientists estimate that at least one third of the life forms that exist in deep oceans have not yet been discovered.· strange life forms in the Galapagos Islands
a living thing, especially an extremely small one - used in scientific and technical contexts: · Food poisoning is caused by a bacterial organism.living organism: · Genetic engineers manipulate living organisms such as cells or bacteria to create products which fight disease.
any living things, for example people, animals, plants, or all of these things together: · Oxygen is necessary to sustain life on Earth.· The new evidence seemed to indicate that life existed on Mars billions of years ago.animal/plant life (=all the animals or plants in a place): · Many species of plant life continue to be eradicated in South American rain forests.
animals and plants growing in natural conditions: · The Sea of Cortez is rich with wildlife.· The organization was set up to protect wildlife across Europe.
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nouncopulate, verbcoral reef, nouncornea, nouncoronary, adjectivecorpuscle, nouncortex, nouncortisone, nouncowrie, nouncrab, nouncrawfish, nouncrayfish, nouncreature, nouncross, verbcrossbreed, nounculture, nouncytoplasm, noundecay, verbdecay, noundecompose, verbdefecate, verbdenizen, noundextrose, noundiaphragm, noundigest, verbdigestion, noundigestive, adjectiveDNA, noundorsal, adjectivedry rot, nounduct, noundwarf, noundwarf, adjectiveecological, adjectiveecology, nounecosystem, nounegg, nounejaculate, verbembryo, nounembryonic, adjectiveenzyme, nounepidermis, nounevolution, nounevolutionary, adjectiveexcrement, nounexcrescence, nounexcrete, verbexcretion, nounexhale, verbexoskeleton, nounextinction, nounfaeces, nounfamily, nounfang, nounfat, nounfatty acid, nounfauna, nounfeces, nounfeed, verbfemale, adjectivefemale, nounferment, verbferment, nounfertile, adjectivefertility, nounfertilize, verbfission, nounflank, nounflatulence, nounflesh, nounfleshy, adjectiveflightless, adjectiveflora, nounfoetal, adjectivefoetus, nounfoliage, nounfossil, nounfreak, nounfreshwater, adjectivefructose, noungamete, nounganglion, noungene, noungene pool, noungenera, genetic, adjectivegenetic code, noungenetic engineering, noungenetic fingerprinting, noungenetics, noungenome, noungenus, noungestation, noungland, nounglandular, adjectiveglucose, noungluten, noungonad, noungrass snake, noungrow, verbgrowth, nounhabitat, nounhaemoglobin, nounhearing, nounheart, nounhemisphere, nounherbivore, nounhereditary, adjectiveheredity, nounhermaphrodite, nounhibernate, verbhistamine, nounhoming, adjectivehormone, nounhost, nounimpregnate, verbimpulse, nounincubate, verbindigenous, adjectiveinfected, adjectiveinfertile, adjectiveinfest, verbingest, verbinhale, verbinseminate, verbinsensate, adjectiveinsulin, nounintegument, nounintercourse, nouninterferon, nounintestine, nouninvertebrate, nouninvoluntary, adjectiveiris, nounjaw, nounjelly, nounkidney, nounkrill, nounlactate, verblactation, nounlactic acid, nounleech, nounleg, nounlesser, adjectivelichen, nounlife, nounlife cycle, nounlife form, nounligament, nounlimb, nounlimpet, nounlipid, nounliver, nounliving fossil, nounlocomotion, nounlymph, nounlymph node, nounmale, adjectivemale, nounmammal, nounmandible, nounmate, nounmate, verbmembrane, nounmetabolism, nounmetabolize, verbmetamorphosis, nounmicrobe, nounmicrobiology, nounmicroorganism, nounmicroscopic, adjectivemigrate, verbmigratory, adjectivemiscarriage, nounmolar, nounmorphology, nounmotor, adjectivemould, nounmouth, nounmucous membrane, nounmucus, nounmulticellular, adjectivemuscle, nounmuscular, adjectivemutant, nounmutate, verbmutation, nounnatural history, nounnatural selection, nounnature, nounneck, nounnectar, nounnerve, nounnervous, adjectivenervous system, nounneural, adjectiveneuro-, prefixneurology, nounnode, nounnose, nounnostril, nounnucleic acid, nounnucleus, nounnutrient, nounnutriment, nounoesophagus, nounoestrogen, nounolfactory, adjectiveoptic, adjectiveorgan, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic chemistry, nounorganism, nounorifice, nounossify, verbosteo-, prefixoutgrowth, nounova, ovary, nounoverwinter, verboviduct, nounoviparous, adjectiveovulate, verbovum, nounparasite, nounpathogen, nounpedigree, nounpelvic, adjectivepelvis, nounpenile, adjectivepenis, nounpepsin, nounperiod, nounperspiration, nounperspire, verbphotosynthesis, nounphylum, nounpigment, nounpigmentation, nounplankton, nounplasma, nounpollinate, verbpostnatal, adjectivepregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectiveprenatal, adjectiveproduct, nounproliferation, nounpropagate, verbprotein, nounprotoplasm, nounprotozoan, nounpuberty, nounpulmonary, adjectivepulp, nounpulsation, nounputrefy, verbputrid, adjectivered blood cell, nounregurgitate, verbrenal, adjectivereproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverespiration, nounrespiratory, adjectiverespire, verbretina, nounroot, nounrot, verbrot, nounruff, nounsac, nounsaliva, nounsalivary gland, nounsalivate, verbsaltwater, adjectivescale, nounscallop, nounscaly, adjectivesebaceous, adjectivesecrete, verbsecretion, nounsemen, nounsense organ, nounsensory, adjectiveserum, nounsex, nounsex, verbsexless, adjectivesexual intercourse, nounsheath, nounshell, nounsibling, nounskeletal, adjectiveskeleton, nounskin, nounskull, nounspasm, nounspasmodic, adjectivespecies, nounspecimen, nounsperm, nounspiderweb, nounspinal cord, nounspine, nounspineless, adjectivestarch, nounstem cell, nounstimulate, verbstimulus, nounstrain, nounsubject, nounsubspecies, nounsucker, nounsucrose, nounsweat, verbsweat, nounsweat gland, nounsymbiosis, nounsystemic, adjectivetail, nountaxonomy, nounteeth, testosterone, nountest-tube baby, nountissue, nountrachea, nountube, noununicellular, adjectiveurethra, nounuric, adjectiveurinate, verburine, nounvariety, nounvector, nounvein, nounvenom, nounvenomous, adjectiveventricle, nounvertebra, nounvertebrate, nounvivisection, nounwarm-blooded, adjectivewean, verbwildlife, nounwindpipe, nounyolk, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1an animal, plant, human, or any other living thing: All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism. (=animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Modern societies are therefore institutionally differentiated, on the analogy of biological organisms, from the relatively simple to the relatively complex.· This background influenced all his thinking about man in society, for he never forgot that human beings were biological organisms.· In the biochemical approach, enzymes obtained from biological organisms are used.· Individual cells have to develop differently in order to make any biological organism.· This brings us to another group of alleged animal rights which relate to its functioning as a biological organism.
· It is the basic organic process of vegetation, which results in the adult or final form of this complex organism.· The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli.· Very simple and very complex organisms have lived side by side for a long time and both have evolved together.· Then competition for scarce resources might favourably select more complex organisms.· The complex organism constrains the behaviour of its parts.· Natural selection does not properly claim that more complex organisms will be favoured.
· It is about the mixing of genes from different organisms.· In the normal, healthy person the gut flora is a balanced community of different organisms.· This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics.
· Secondly, there is a need to determine how genetically engineered organisms will react when released into the environment.
· Even higher organisms resort to fermentation as an auxiliary process when the oxygen supply is insufficient.· The motivational system of a higher organism is complex, comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means.
· He worked with the bovine strain, but confirmed his positive findings with virulent human organisms.· The human organism can withstand unspeakable physical pain.
· The rivalry between individual organism and group of organisms for the vehicle role, being a real rivalry, can be settled.· That is, Gaian homeostasis originates in the local activity of individual organisms.· As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.· The population dynamics emerges from the interactions among the individual organisms.· This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism.· Because the individual organisms vary, some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others.· By 1841, he had very probably worked out, also, his later theory of individual organism generation: pangenesis.
· Genome: the genetic complement of a living organism.· Level 4 Be able to measure variations in living organisms.· In this respect they share a property of living organisms.· In common with Descartes, he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism.· Further chemical reactions led to living organisms.· It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints.· All living organisms age, undergoing certain physiological changes as they do so.· Carbon dioxide is added to the water by the respiration of fish, plants, and other living organisms.
· Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.· Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms, diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.· Climate can affect marine organisms directly, through temperature intolerance, and indirectly, through affecting food resources.· They are also a severe threat to other species, particularly marine organisms.· Unlike shallow-water wrecks, which are rotted by marine organisms and turbulence, deep water finds should be well preserved.
· The enzymes, in effect, determine the function of all multicellular organisms.· Extracellular matrix is an integral part of multicellular organisms, providing structural integrity and support to cells.
· Nineteen children had one other organism, five children had two, and two children had three.· Carbon dioxide is added to the water by the respiration of fish, plants, and other living organisms.· I doubt that parasites or other organisms are at fault.· A successful group of sponges has taken to boring into the shells of other organisms.· Fish and other organisms have been successively destroyed over large areas of the creek, and surviving fish have become chronically diseased.· Work with other organisms should yield some insight into the likely outcome.· Humans are bounded by such principles as much as are other living organisms.· This means that animals, which live by consuming other organisms, need ways of making do on very little.
· Even so, in this simple organism you can see the first hint of a fish.· For very simple organisms, such as micro-organisms, the behavioral mode is not as important as the genetic mode.· His luck was favoured by a prepared mind: by his decision to study simple characters in a simple organism.· I now turn to bacteria, the simplest organisms capable of a non-parasitic life.· An analysis of behavior naturally begins with simple organisms behaving in simple ways in simple settings.
· In the case of acute infectious diseases, attempts are made to isolate a single identifiable organism.
· The smallest organisms are no exception, and any mechanism by which some individuals can dominate others has value for survival.
· All social and economic organisms now produce documents on a vast scale.· This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism.
· As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes.· Some sponges produce a soft flexible substance around their cells which supports the whole organism.
NOUN· Unlike the aerobic reaction that produces farmyard manure, anaerobic fermentation gives off little heat, so disease organisms thrive.· They can always find a disease organism somewhere as a way of dismissing the idea of air pollution.· This in turn reduces the bodily functions which are under attack from the disease organism.· Salmonella-i hen's egg in boo carries this serious disease organism.
VERB· Then, though, there is the risk that the beam itself will interfere with and possibly kill the organism under study.· Mackowiak theorizes that this evolved to quickly kill badly infected organisms to prevent epidemic infection within species.
· Prehistoric man must have experienced caves as living organisms, especially if he explored their interior spaces in semi-darkness.· Flashing blue lights, such as those described, are bioluminescence, which is visible light made by living organisms.· But they are still living organisms.· They can not bear the idea that living organisms can reproduce themselves on their own, at no cost.· The conquest of air by living organisms is a relatively recent event, and one not yet completed.· From studies on living organisms it is impossible to learn details of the molecular events in IL-6 induced gene expression.· Mollusks, like all living organisms, constantly adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
· The new category of genetically modified organisms has been subject to far less testing than one should reasonably expect.· Most intense has been the reaction against genetically modified crops, known as GMOs, for genetically modified organism.· With a genetically modified organism if you do make a mistake that can be a mistake for ever.
· This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics.· This approach was followed for some months, so that an impressive list was produced of sensitive organisms, including many important pathogens.
All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.2a system made up of parts that are dependent on each other: A society is essentially an organism.