host organism

collocation in English

meaningsofhostandorganism

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host
noun
uk
/həʊst/us
/hoʊst/
someone who ...
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organism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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(Definition ofhostandorganismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of ahostorganism.
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The antibodies represent a vocabulary that recognizes a universe of substances or microorganisms that might be deleterious to thehostorganism.
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The idea of using a non-mammalian and genetically tractablehostorganismis therefore attractive.
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In fact, such changes often don't last past the initialhostorganism.
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When that happens, a pathogen that had been confined to a remote habitat has a wider distribution and possibly a newhostorganism.
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In essence, they are virulence factors, factors that make the bacteria harmful and infective to thehostorganism.
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The third larval stage is also acaudate and eventually emerges from thehostorganism.
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Thus, divergent viral sequences may be found in a singlehostorganism.
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Pili need to be formed by bacteria, as they are a method of adhering to thehostorganismwhich helps them infect the host cell.
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He developed bacteria and fungi may regress or downgrade back to harmless particles, but this process is only possible in a healthyhostorganism.
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When this bacterium is present within ahostorganism, quorum sensing causes the up regulation of several virulence genes.
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Urate oxidase is found in all organisms, from bacteria to mammals, and plays different metabolic roles, depending on itshostorganism.
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In the case of parasites, the term type host (or symbiotype) is used to indicate thehostorganismfrom which the type specimen was obtained.
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The role of this fold is to aid the binding to cells, and promote infection within thehostorganism.
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Three transport systems are used for the uptake of bases from thehostorganism.
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The cyanobiont fixes nitrogen, and sometimes also performs photosynthesis for thehostorganism.
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While it is generally accepted that the xenoma prevents spread of the parasite throughout thehostorganism, it is not entirely accurate.
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Specific changes to thehostorganismmay be made to improve expression of the ectopic gene.
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It can be used for affinity chromatography, then used to separate recombinant, overexpressed protein from wild-type protein expressed by thehostorganism.
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