Vi fant 5 definisjoner av organism på engelsk.
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| organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | ||
| being | ||
| animate thing, living thing a living (or once living) entity | ||
| benthos organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea | ||
| dwarf a plant or animal that is atypically small | ||
| heterotroph an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition | ||
| parent an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | ||
| cell (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| plant life, flora, plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| native indigenous plants and animals | ||
| recombinant a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | ||
| conspecific an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | ||
| carrier (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | ||
| denizen a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep" | ||
| amphidiploid (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent | ||
| diploid (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number | ||
| haploid (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes | ||
| heteroploid (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species | ||
| polyploid (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes | ||
| animalcule, animalculum microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | ||
| micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size | ||
| aerobe an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life | ||
| anaerobe an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live | ||
| crossbreed, hybrid, cross (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" | ||
| polymorph an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites | ||
| congenator, congeneric, relative, congener an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | ||
| plankton the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | ||
| nekton the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | ||
| parasite an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host | ||
| host an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association | ||
| commensal either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | ||
| myrmecophile an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | ||
| eucaryote, eukaryote an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | ||
| procaryote, prokaryote a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | ||
| zooid one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan | ||
| body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity | ||
| tissue part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function | ||
| clon, clone a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | ||
| atavist, throwback an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | ||
| individual a single organism | ||
| mascot a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure | ||
| mutant, mutation, sport, variation an animal that has undergone mutation | ||
| postdiluvian anything living after Noah's flood | ||
| sitter an organism (person or animal) that sits | ||
| stander an organism (person or animal) that stands; "a crowd of sitters and standers" | ||
| vocaliser, vocalizer, utterer someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | ||
| fungus an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | ||
| nonvascular organism organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses | ||
| relict geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared | ||
| saprophyte, saprophytic organism an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium | ||
| saprobe an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | ||
| katharobe an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter | ||
| organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism" | ||
| scheme, system an elaborate and systematic plan of action | ||
