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Example sentences for "living organism"

  • As long as we are unable to transform inert matter into a living organism we shall remain in ignorance.

  • The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.

  • The Church may be conceived of as a living organism, for ever and on all sides putting forth feelers and tentacles, that seize, try, and seem to dally with all kinds of nutriment.

  • And does not this teach us that the condition of a living organism at any time is the result of the one preceding it, and that the transition implies a corresponding functional enhancement?

  • As a living organism, the plant is involved in an endless process of becoming.

  • Bastian clung to his supposed discovery of the physico-chemical conditions for production of living organism.

  • Two, murder may be defined as an act of violence, consisting of breaking, mangling, maltreating or otherwise stopping the functions of a living organism by a living organism.

  • The breaking, mangling or otherwise stopping the functions of a living organism by a living organism.

  • Defn: An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

  • Defn: Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.

  • Defn: The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

  • Indeed, all the human problems must be put aside until we have prepared the way for their study by learning what evolution means, what a living organism is, and how sure is the evidence of organic transformation.

  • So, as Huxley says, a living organism is like a flame or a whirlpool, which is an ever changing though seemingly constant individuality.

  • Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

  • The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

  • An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

  • A living organism is also a transformer of matter.

  • Now that we know that a living organism is but the arena for the transformation of energy, we may hope to reproduce the elementary phenomena of life, by calling into play a similar transformation of energy in a suitable medium.

  • The matter of which a living organism is constituted consists essentially of certain solutions of crystalloids and colloids.

  • A living organism, consisting as it does essentially of liquid solutions, can only exist at temperatures at which such solutions remain liquid, i.

  • So far as it is a living organism, the living Organism in itself is beautiful, possessing an excellent life, and lacking no kind of life; it does not have a life mingled with death, it contains nothing mortal nor perishable.

  • Naturally the first idea was that the disease was caused by some soluble poison and not by a living organism, but this was disproved in a number of ways.

  • It may be that the dividing line is very difficult of detection; that it is impossible to determine in all cases just where organizable matter passes from dead matter into a living organism.

  • It is in this way that Spencer accounts for the formation of the cell which becomes developed into a living organism, out of which are successively evolved all the higher forms of animal organisms, until we reach man.

  • But that at some point there has arisen a living organism, however produced, is certain.

  • Then, too, earlier students had only vague notions of the actual structure of a living organism.

  • Given a living organism, mechanics and chemistry will then explain much of its behavior--practically all the behavior of the lower organisms, and much of that of the higher.

  • What difference does it find between inert matter and a living organism?

  • True it is that a living organism yields to scientific analysis only mechanical and chemical forces--a fact which only limits the range of scientific analysis, and which by no means exhausts the possibilities of the living organism.

  • No less than three observers hit almost simultaneously upon the secret of fermentation and declared that yeast was a living organism.

  • It is possible to grind a living organism to a pulp so that the structure of the cells is practically destroyed, and yet for some reactions which are quite peculiar to life still to show themselves for some appreciable time.

  • Were this definition complete, a river would furnish us with a perfect example of a living organism, because, while the river remains, the individual drops of water are continually changing.

  • A living organism is such that, though it is continually changing its substance, its identity, as a whole, remains essentially the same.

  • And if the structures are so designed as to meet the needs of a living organism, it implies that the living organism that designed them must have a reasonable mind lodged in a natural body.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living organism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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