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 organism ['ɒ:gәnizm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 生物, 有机体, 社会组织

[医] 生物[体],[有]机体




    organism
    [ noun ]
    1. a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

    2. <noun.tops>
    3. a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body

    4. <noun.group>
      the social organism


    Organism \Or"gan*ism\, n. [Cf. F. organisme.]
    1. Organic structure; organization. ``The advantageous
    organism of the eye.'' --Grew.

    2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either
    vegetable or animal, composed of different organs or parts
    with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent,
    and essential to the life of the individual.

    Note: Some of the lower forms of life are so simple in
    structure as to be without organs, but are still called
    organisms, since they have different parts analogous in
    functions to the organs of higher plants and animals.

    1. In all cases, a low-caloric intake was shown to extend the organism's life by about 40 to 50 per cent. The method has already won over some believers.
    2. The Agriculture Department said Thursday it has approved a permit for Crop Genetics International, Hanover, Md., to begin immediate field tests of rice plants containing a genetically engineered organism to ward off insects.
    3. The outbreak "has nothing to do with (common) strep throat," Gollub said. "It's just the strep organism is involved."
    4. The vaccine, which contained a live organism, was fully licensed in the early 1980s.
    5. "The staph organism quickly becomes resistant to antibiotics by producing an enzyme that renders the antibiotic ineffective," Young said.
    6. In 1979, Victor Yu, a specialist in infectious diseases, published an article saying the organism can cause meningitis, wound infection and arthritis.
    7. Leucovorin replenishes the vitamins in normal cells, but doesn't do so in cells of the organism that causes PCP.
    8. Consumers, who made up 86 percent of the callers, also asked frequently about freezer and refrigerator storage times, and the food poisoning organism, salmonella.
    9. It is very hard to say it just is a matter of basic principle that it must be a fundamental right unless you make the determination that the organism that is destroyed is not a human life.
    10. Modern medical research demonstrates that the human body, though not perfect, is a remarkably successful organism.
    11. DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is the protein that carries an organism's genetic information.
    12. After the insects eat the bait, the organism "attacks the pest's fat cells and depletes its energy stores," Henry said in a report issued here on Wednesday.
    13. Using the techniques of recombinant DNA, BioTechnica Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. has re-inserted the genes responsible for nitrogen use _ nitrogen fixation _ back into the organism, giving it two copies of the genes.
    14. Once it infects a cricket, the organism acts slowly, taking up to 12 days to multiply.
    15. Natural selection, Darwin's theory that stands in opposition to Lamarckism, says that mutations arise spontaneously in organisms, and by chance some of those mutations may allow an organism to survive better than others of its kind.
    16. Dr. Montagnier believes a second infection by a microbe called mycoplasma may turn the AIDS virus from a lazy organism into a voracious killer of human cells.
    17. She told the newspaper that prisoners could fight off "a breakdown" for five years at the most, but "then the organism catastrophically weakens" and prisoners seek solace in smoking, lesbianism and narcotics.
    18. The prospect is intriguing but not alarming, such an organism could not survive outside the laboratory.
    19. In normal circumstances, 95 percent of "people who are infected with the tuberculosis organism will go through life and never come down with tuberculosis," the researcher told reporters later.
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