ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole)
the organismic theory of the state
How To Use organismal In A Sentence
- Most importantly, if mutations have no effect on organismal fitness, the genealogy of a sample can be separated entirely from the mutational process.
- These biochemical and organismal effects are evolutionarily dissociable to some extent, because some changes in gene expression appear to have no consequence for organismal phenotype.
- I also told the board about a book just published by MIT press, The Origination of Organismal Form.
- He found such an agent in the phagocyte, which retained its ancient phylogenetic eating function, to devour effete, dead, or injured cells that violated the phagocyte's sense of organismal identity. The Impulse of Breathing
- Early morphologists, such as Cuvier, felt that function was predictable from organismal form, to the extent that animals and plants represented perfect adaptations to their habits.
- Given that these lines of ancestry do not converge to a point, but pass through an interval of indeterminate width into a communal state, the set of ancestors of any eukaryote will not include a universally shared organismal member (usually referred to the literature as the last eukaryotic common ancestor, LECA). A Disclaimer for Behe?
- At the other end of the spectrum, organismal biology and ecology are making a modest comeback.
- Cyanobacteria, plants, fungi, animals - they all use completely different molecules to drive cellular and organismal rhythmicity, implying independent origin and evolution, yet identical function. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science