biological organism

collocation in English

meaningsofbiologicalandorganism

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biological
adjective
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/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
connected with the natural processes of ...
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organism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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(Definition ofbiologicalandorganismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As will be shown, the process of constructing the model was guided by conceptualizing thebiologicalorganismas a computational, information-processing device.
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Like abiologicalorganism, the closer one looks at the structure of an economy, the more complicated its organization appears.
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But the competing reaction does happen in thebiologicalorganism.
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In our case, we mean a close resemblance of a robot to abiologicalorganism, at the anatomical, physiological, functional or behavioral level.
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This radical transformation gives rise to the metabolism of the initialbiologicalorganismand transition of chemical reactions from in vitro into in vivo.
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An artefact, like abiologicalorganism, is not an unstructured whole; its parts are hierarchically integrated.
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In order for abiologicalorganismto evolve by natural selection, there must be a certain minimum probability that new, heritable variants are beneficial.
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Within an organism it is responsible for growth and development of a biological cell or an organelle of abiologicalorganism.
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The mind, on this account, is not restricted to thebiologicalorganismbut extends into that organism's environment.
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As far as we know, the total personality is a function of thebiologicalorganismtransacting in a social and cultural context.
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Pathogens are generally included as well, despite some definitions not regardingbiologicalorganismas toxic by themselves.
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As an example, when a fuel is burned the chemical energy is converted to heat, same is the case with digestion of food metabolized in abiologicalorganism.
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What is needed is evidence that biological organisms are indeed detecting and acting upon information in a multimodal (or global) array.
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Human society was compared to abiologicalorganism, and social science equivalents of concepts like variation, natural selection, and inheritance were introduced as factors resulting in the progress of societies.
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Our knowledge concerning the behavior of biological organisms is currently so incomplete that one primary goal must be to improve our description of behavior.
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As biological organisms, their capacity to assent is not confined to those cases in which the law of nature legally empowers them to do so.
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Nevertheless, this approach has its supporters which define humans as abiologicalorganismand asserts the proposition that a psychological relation is not necessary for personal continuity.
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Biological organisms are regarded as typical examples of complex systems, and such populations are supposed to behave in complex ways.
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The most important characteristics of individual biological organisms, for our purposes, may be reproduction and active motion.
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