How To Use Organismic In A Sentence
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Constructivism and maturational theory ‘are both examples of organismic theories.’
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Genetics has been an important tool for studying the molecular basis of cell functions and for establishing correlations between cellular function and organismic function.
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Meanwhile, evolutionary biology and organismic biology continued to grow in strength and sophistication, and extended their reach on down beyond the organism.
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Remember how Driesch and his supporters fought for recognition that life transcends physics and chemistry, by arguing that the powers of regeneration in the sea urchin embryo were not explicable by a machinelike structure, and how the controversy has continued, along similar lines, between those who insisted that regulative “equipotential” or “organismic” integration was irreducible to any machinelike mechanism and was therefore irreducible also to the laws of inanimate nature.
Polanyi: morphogenetic field
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It is devoted to what molecular biologists have learned about the details, with all their intricacies and puzzles, of organismic development.
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But we argue that if self-organization proves to be a common mechanism for the generation of adaptive order from the molecular to the organismic level, then this will greatly undermine the Darwinian claim that natural selection is the major creative agency in evolution.
2008 September - Telic Thoughts
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Large-scale systematic patterns of variation lie at the heart of organismic biology and have interested biologists ever since the beginning.
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Reflecting on this, a number of biologists and historians of biology have noted that the idea of the gene as a code or blueprint is a very limited and reductionist construction of organismic life.
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Further, he is interested only in the effect the groups have on organismic adaptedness and expected reproductive success.
Units and Levels of Selection
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In all likelihood, however, ozone has the capacity to diffuse through the fungal wall into the organismic cytoplasm, thus disrupting cellular organelles.
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the organismic theory of the state
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In all likelihood, however, ozone has the capacity to diffuse through the fungal wall into the organismic cytoplasm, thus disrupting cellular organelles.
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The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism
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Alternatively, since white myotomal muscle is the tissue that comprises the greatest percentage of body mass of fishes, white muscle aerobic capacity may reflect overall organismic aerobic capacity and standard metabolic rate.
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Transposable elements: Possible catalysts of organismic evolution.
Parasite Rex
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Scientist Frederic Clements (1916; 1928) developed the ‘organismic concept’ which recognized that communities were definable, with species grouped repeatedly and regularly in similar environmental conditions.
Natural Community
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That Goethe is looking at parts of the same organism, while Darwin is treating of entire organismic forms of related groups is beside the point.
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Applying these ideas to the design of organismic bodies, we note that the supportive materials of plants and animals are based on fibrous macromolecules-cellulose in plants and collagen and chitin in animals.
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However, melanin deposition in feather melanocytes has strong links with the capacity of the antioxidant and immune systems, two crucial fitness-enhancing organismic functions.
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From the beginning the emphasis in these journals has been mainly on organismic genetics in a wide variety of animals and plants, and in the early years, on eugenics.
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It allows for the test of a number of biologically important variables in organismic development, for example, the timing of maximal growth rate and the duration of linear growth phase.
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Thus Dawkins, for example, used facts about inheritance, e.g. that genes are faithfully replicated across generations while whole genotypes and organismic characters are not, to privilege the gene as the unit of selection.
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Lazarus defined emotions as a complex, patterned organismic reaction to how we think we are doing in life.
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This step in evolution - the acquisition of stable diploidy - was the second prerequisite for evolution of organismic complexity.
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Neuroscience, for him, more or less just identifies organismic physical processes that underlie animal/environment interactions.
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In the chain of life there is an organismic relationship among things.
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But angiosperm life forms and niches are so varied, with much of their organismic machinery being cells where size matters, that a vast spectrum of cell-size has been favoured by selection.
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Although the relationship between cellular and organismic age is not well understood, chronological age is inversely correlated with telomere length in adults across all age groups.
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The organismic principle of integration is an all-embracing principle, taking in all the value-concepts in the complex and relating every concept to every other concept in an identical manner.
David Shasha: Understanding Midrash
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The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism
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Even in messy cases biologists are fairly successful in separating out environmental causes from genetic, or organismic, causes of differential reproduction.
Miss Winter Solstice
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Chemical messengers regulate physiological and behavioral functions at all levels of organization including molecular, cellular, developmental, organismic, and ecological.
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We live in a society that has a parallel and equally strong belief in evolution (social and organismic in face of physical entropy) and progress.
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And who knows whether our organismic suppleness, our deep evolvability, isn't related to our mental thirst for the new, and our hope that behind the door lies the best surprise yet?
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