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Biological Organisms
Biological Organisms: Living things that are capable of reacting to stimuli, reproduction, growth, and homeostasis. Organisms are classified by taxonomy into specified groups such as the multicellular animals, plants, and fungi; or unicellular microorganisms such as a protists, bacteria, and archaea. All types of organisms are capable of reproduction, growth and development, maintenance, and some degree of response to stimuli. An organism may be either a prokaryote or a eukaryote. Prokaryotes are represented by two separate domains-bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotic organisms are characterized by the presence of a membrane-bound cell nucleus and contain additional membrane-bound compartments called organelles.
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Archaea are a relatively recently discovered group of microorganisms that occupy their own branch on the tree of life. T ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 12, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUL 30, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cyanobacteria use light to survive, and these organisms are regulated by circadian rhythms, the 24-hour biological cycle
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2024
Microbiology
Organic molecules have a property known as chirality, in which the structure can be either 'right-handed'; or 'left-hand
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2024
Microbiology
The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human healt
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new study has shown that people who have asthma or sniffling caused by allergies also carry a different set of fungi i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 16, 2024
Microbiology
Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 15, 2024
Microbiology
Microbes have been able to find a home in some truly incredible places, even inside of ancient rocks....
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for bot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2024
Microbiology
All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2024
Microbiology
Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to rev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 30, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Microscopic marine fossils can reveal more about the climate of the ancient past; what we are experiencing now; and what
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 25, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Prokaryotes are ancient, simple forms of life that include bacteria and archaea, and lack membrane-bound organelles.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 20, 2024
Microbiology
Fungi are everywhere, and in many cases, a fungal infection can be eliminated by a person's immune system. But fungal in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2024
Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 21, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
This image by C. G. Wilson shows a rotifer that has survived a life-threatening fungal infection by using acquired micro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 18, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The planet has many interconnected cycles. A new study in Science has examined the role of inorganic Zinc (Zn) in the bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2024
Microbiology
Some very simple organisms are capable of very complex behavior, like fungi that exhibit signs of memory or bacteria tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 12, 2024
Microbiology
In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are a relatively recently discovered group of microorganisms that occupy their own branch on the tree of life. T
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch