single-celled organism
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organism
noun[C]
uk/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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(Definition oforganismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Sappinia is a free-living amoeba (asingle-celledorganism), found in the environment.
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The player molds and guides a species across many generations, growing it from asingle-celledorganisminto a more complex animal.
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The scientists concluded that the angel hair was produced by a small insect or perhaps some kind ofsingle-celledorganism.
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This is a giantsingle-celledorganism(a protozoan) that is widespread in deep waters, but occurs in particularly high densities on the mounds and the tails.
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We take the problem of their multiple concurrency to be similar to the problem of multiple concurrency in lineages of single-celled organisms in asexual species.
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However, for the sake of simplicity, biologists frequently discuss selection as it functions in lineages of single-celled organisms that reproduce asexually.
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His suggestion was to use multiple properties (nearness to some specified chemical composition) in his simulation of the genetics and chemistry of a population of single-celled organisms.
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The acid causes direct death of the single-celled organisms called plankton.
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In the modern world it occurs in bacteria, single-celled organisms, plants, and animals (invertebrates and vertebrates).
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Most animal cells and single-celled organisms have very little color, and their intracellular organelles are almost totally invisible under simple bright field illumination.
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Single-celled organisms have no distinction between germline and somatic tissues.
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At this point nuka-bed is live, meaning that it contains a culture of active single-celled organisms, mostly lactobacilli and yeast.
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In single-celled organisms, ingestion can take place through taking the substance through the cell membrane.
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Research encompasses the diversity of single-celled organisms like bacteria and protozoa, and specialized cells in multicellular organisms such as humans, plants, and sponges.
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Amongst single-celled organisms it may be the dominant form of genetic transfer.
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The being is of a monstrous fecundity, spontaneously generating primordial single-celled organisms that pour unceasingly from its shapeless form.
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The first two are all prokaryotic microorganisms, or single-celled organisms whose cells have no nucleus.
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Lakes and oceans contain many single-celled organisms called phytoplankton.
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