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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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AUG 26, 2021
Immunology
Once organ failure patients receive the gift of a transplant, they face a life-long threat of immune rejection. Their im
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
AUG 18, 2021
Microbiology
In a world with a growing population and a changing environment, food security is an important issue. Scientists have be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 17, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
The genome is more than just its sequence; epigenetic features of DNA, like chemical tags that may be attached, or how i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes have adapted to live virtually everywhere, including inside the guts of many animals and humans. But how do the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2021
Health & Medicine
As Delta has become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant causing COVID-19 infections in the United States, researchers and he
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2021
Plants & Animals
The exotic Venus flytrap is a famous carnivorous plant that's easy to identify. But it seems that another carnivorous pl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 01, 2021
Microbiology
The genetic action in this 'evolutionary arms races' involves gene swapping and three organisms.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2021
Plants & Animals
Professor Elizabeth C. Turner of Laurentian University may have discovered the oldest animal fossil ever, as reported in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2021
Microbiology
Histones are proteins that are used to organize and compact DNA. Some giant viruses called Marseilleviridae have also be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 25, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes live everywhere, even in the open ocean. They have to compete for survival just like other organisms but even t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 23, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
As imaging tools continue to get more sophisticated, researchers have been able to get a look at more biological process
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2021
Microbiology
As the climate warms and long-frozen surfaces begin to thaw, scientists are finding ancient animals and organisms. In so
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2021
Space & Astronomy
One of the special features of NASA's Perseverance Rover is its ability to perform some scientific experiments. One of i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 21, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have shown that it's possible to assess what organisms might be living in a particular habitat by collecting
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a molecule that provides crucial energy to activate a wide array of biological processes
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2021
Microbiology
In nature, growing populations from bacterial colonies to humans tend to expand. In pulled expansions, the individuals a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Some life forms can enter a kind of dormant state, where they wait for the right conditions so they can reemerge; fungi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2021
Plants & Animals
Great white sharks are warm-blooded, and new research helps explain why.
Written By:
Anne Medina
JUL 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Fish can serve as good research models. They can develop quickly, outside of the mother where they can be observed. Some
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2021
Cancer
A study by researchers in Germany suggests that patients with heart failure are more likely to develop cancer than those
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 28, 2021
Cardiology
When graphene was first developed, it was hailed as a revolutionary material but its potential uses seemed unclear to ma
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 24, 2021
Microbiology
Scientists have discovered an unusual specimen of fungus that is making a carpenter ant its home; this discovery is the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 20, 2021
Microbiology
Escherichia coli bacteria are known to live in the gut, and they can also sicken people if they contaminate food that ge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a wave of new technologies for rapid viral diagnostics, given just how critical
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes