noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (= animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biological
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Modern societies are therefore institutionally differentiated, on the analogy of biological organisms , from the relatively simple to the relatively complex.
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This background influenced all his thinking about man in society, for he never forgot that human beings were biological organisms .
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In the biochemical approach, enzymes obtained from biological organisms are used.
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Individual cells have to develop differently in order to make any biological organism .
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This brings us to another group of alleged animal rights which relate to its functioning as a biological organism .
complex
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It is the basic organic process of vegetation, which results in the adult or final form of this complex organism .
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The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli.
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Very simple and very complex organisms have lived side by side for a long time and both have evolved together.
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Then competition for scarce resources might favourably select more complex organisms .
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The complex organism constrains the behaviour of its parts.
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Natural selection does not properly claim that more complex organisms will be favoured.
different
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It is about the mixing of genes from different organisms .
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In the normal, healthy person the gut flora is a balanced community of different organisms .
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This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics.
engineered
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Secondly, there is a need to determine how genetically engineered organisms will react when released into the environment.
high
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Even higher organisms resort to fermentation as an auxiliary process when the oxygen supply is insufficient.
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The motivational system of a higher organism is complex, comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means.
human
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He worked with the bovine strain, but confirmed his positive findings with virulent human organisms .
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The human organism can withstand unspeakable physical pain.
individual
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The rivalry between individual organism and group of organisms for the vehicle role, being a real rivalry, can be settled.
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That is, Gaian homeostasis originates in the local activity of individual organisms .
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As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism .
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The population dynamics emerges from the interactions among the individual organisms .
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This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism .
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Because the individual organisms vary, some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others.
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By 1841, he had very probably worked out, also, his later theory of individual organism generation: pangenesis.
living
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Genome: the genetic complement of a living organism .
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Level 4 Be able to measure variations in living organisms .
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In this respect they share a property of living organisms .
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In common with Descartes, he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism .
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Further chemical reactions led to living organisms .
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It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints.
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All living organisms age, undergoing certain physiological changes as they do so.
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Carbon dioxide is added to the water by the respiration of fish, plants, and other living organisms .
marine
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.
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Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms , diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.
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Climate can affect marine organisms directly, through temperature intolerance, and indirectly, through affecting food resources.
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They are also a severe threat to other species, particularly marine organisms .
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Unlike shallow-water wrecks, which are rotted by marine organisms and turbulence, deep water finds should be well preserved.
multicellular
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The enzymes, in effect, determine the function of all multicellular organisms .
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Extracellular matrix is an integral part of multicellular organisms , providing structural integrity and support to cells.
other
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Nineteen children had one other organism , five children had two, and two children had three.
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Carbon dioxide is added to the water by the respiration of fish, plants, and other living organisms .
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I doubt that parasites or other organisms are at fault.
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A successful group of sponges has taken to boring into the shells of other organisms .
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Fish and other organisms have been successively destroyed over large areas of the creek, and surviving fish have become chronically diseased.
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Work with other organisms should yield some insight into the likely outcome.
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Humans are bounded by such principles as much as are other living organisms .
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This means that animals, which live by consuming other organisms , need ways of making do on very little.
simple
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Even so, in this simple organism you can see the first hint of a fish.
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For very simple organisms , such as micro-organisms, the behavioral mode is not as important as the genetic mode.
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His luck was favoured by a prepared mind: by his decision to study simple characters in a simple organism .
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I now turn to bacteria, the simplest organisms capable of a non-parasitic life.
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An analysis of behavior naturally begins with simple organisms behaving in simple ways in simple settings.
single
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In the case of acute infectious diseases, attempts are made to isolate a single identifiable organism .
small
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The smallest organisms are no exception, and any mechanism by which some individuals can dominate others has value for survival.
social
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All social and economic organisms now produce documents on a vast scale.
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This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism .
whole
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As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes.
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Some sponges produce a soft flexible substance around their cells which supports the whole organism .
■ NOUN
disease
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Unlike the aerobic reaction that produces farmyard manure, anaerobic fermentation gives off little heat, so disease organisms thrive.
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They can always find a disease organism somewhere as a way of dismissing the idea of air pollution.
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This in turn reduces the bodily functions which are under attack from the disease organism .
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Salmonella-i hen's egg in boo carries this serious disease organism .
■ VERB
kill
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Then, though, there is the risk that the beam itself will interfere with and possibly kill the organism under study.
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Mackowiak theorizes that this evolved to quickly kill badly infected organisms to prevent epidemic infection within species.
live
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Prehistoric man must have experienced caves as living organisms , especially if he explored their interior spaces in semi-darkness.
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Flashing blue lights, such as those described, are bioluminescence, which is visible light made by living organisms .
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But they are still living organisms .
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They can not bear the idea that living organisms can reproduce themselves on their own, at no cost.
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The conquest of air by living organisms is a relatively recent event, and one not yet completed.
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From studies on living organisms it is impossible to learn details of the molecular events in IL-6 induced gene expression.
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Mollusks, like all living organisms , constantly adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
modify
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The new category of genetically modified organisms has been subject to far less testing than one should reasonably expect.
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Most intense has been the reaction against genetically modified crops, known as GMOs, for genetically modified organism .
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With a genetically modified organism if you do make a mistake that can be a mistake for ever.
produce
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This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics.
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This approach was followed for some months, so that an impressive list was produced of sensitive organisms , including many important pathogens.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Food poisoning is caused by a bacterial organism .
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Genetic engineers manipulate living organisms such as cells or bacteria to create products which fight disease.
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The human body is a very complex organism .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A network, or society, of very simpleminded decision-making centers like these formed an organism that exhibited remarkable agility and adaptability.
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Art is not a machine, he wrote, and it is not an organism .
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Ecologies and organisms have always been grown.
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From the start, resistant organisms have appeared.
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In this respect they share a property of living organisms.
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Obviously, organisms that form beliefs based on accurate perceptions of the environment will survive better than organisms that form inaccurate beliefs.
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Questions about life are conventionally questions about organisms.