single organism

collocation in English

meaningsofsingleandorganism

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single
adjective
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/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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organism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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(Definition ofsingleandorganismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The target planet must also at least be habitable to allow seeding by asingleorganism.
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Approximately 40-50 % of drops are expected to contain asingleorganism.
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The host, therefore, could be asingleorganismas in the traditional sense, or a group of organisms.
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The presence of asingleorganismin a drop was detected using the phase-contrast microscope.
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Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, researchers worked at improving the microtome so that it could make regular, very thin serial sections of asingleorganism.
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Behaviour is the driver of change, not just over the lifetime of asingleorganismbut also over a longer evolutionary timescale.
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A pure culture may originate from a single cell orsingleorganism, in which case the cells are genetic clones of one another.
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Using multiple stains can better differentiate between different microorganisms or structures/cellular components of asingleorganism.
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The network of these tubular branching hyphae, called a mycelium, is considered asingleorganism.
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The chondrophores look like asingleorganismbut are actually colonial animals, made up of orderly cooperatives of polyps living under specialized sail-structures.
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It is not known, however, whether it is asingleorganismwith all parts of the mycelium connected.
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Asingleorganismcan be both poisonous and venomous.
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Although a siphonophore appears to be asingleorganism, each specimen is actually a colony composed of many individual animals.
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Up to ten inflorescences may present in asingleorganism.
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Murchie further envisioned the earth as asingleorganism.
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The bacterium is extremely sustainable and virulent: asingleorganismis able to cause an infection.
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The trees are grafted together with the objective of all the different plants eventually becoming asingleorganism.
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Consequently, the "umwelten" of different organisms differ, which follows from the individuality and uniqueness of the history of everysingleorganism.
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