primitive organisms
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimitiveandorganism
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primitive
adjective
uk/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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organism
noun[C]
uk/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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This is an amazingly sophisticated behavior by aprimitiveorganismwith no sense of gravity.
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They are not primitive organisms : in suitable environments (inside of host cells) viruses replicate efficiently, and they can evolve and adapt to new environments (hosts).
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Some of these separate origins might have produced primitive organisms differing in their basic molecular building blocks in some of the ways discussed above.
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By this feature, they appear as the most primitive organisms known so far.
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From an evolutionary perspective, the similarities in the response to stress and acute illness may be understood by studying the systems subserving adaptation and defence in primitive organisms.
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Humphrey sees them as evolutionary residues of primitive aversive or appetitive "wriggles," whereby primitive organisms deal with stimuli at their bodily periphery.
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Galectin ancestors are present in very primitive organisms such as sponges and nematodes.
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Trogocytosis might have appeared first in very primitive organisms to feed off other cells.
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The gene is distinct and similar to that of primitive organisms.
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Since this first finding, however, hopanoids have been found to be present in nature in vast amounts as components of bacteria and other primitive organisms.
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