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Example sentences for "organisms"

Lexicographically close words:
organisers; organises; organising; organism; organismal; organist; organists; organizable; organization; organizational
  1. Textures may differ, but all mental organisms are the same in color, fiber, and mode of operation and development.

  2. These minute organisms exist in the atmosphere everywhere, and multiply by their own peculiar method of procreation; such as filth, heat and moisture.

  3. The human brain is an organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather, during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.

  4. These organisms may truly be said to be omnipresent.

  5. Some of these organisms may settle by preference in the bone marrow, others beneath the periosteum, or in the joint.

  6. The organisms are fungi, known as the blastomycetes, saccharomyces or yeasts, characterized especially by their mode of multiplication or cell division, called budding.

  7. Exactly how chemical antiseptics act in suspending the growth in living organisms and yet leaving them capable of restoration, is not understood.

  8. However produced, large numbers of organisms are present and a high grade of inflammation ensues.

  9. In employing these substances it should be borne in mind that they are not usually antiseptic but, on the contrary, may harbor organisms which may be transferred to the wound and cause infection.

  10. In septic infection, or septicemia, only a small number of organisms may get into the blood, but they multiply rapidly.

  11. The round or oval cells are called cocci; the rod-shaped organisms are termed bacilli.

  12. Moist heat is a much more efficacious germicide than dry heat, for it destroys the organisms at a much lower temperature.

  13. The test reason advanced is that only the most resistant organisms stand transplanting to an artificial environment.

  14. In itself it is harmless, although it sometimes affords a refuge for organisms of a virulent type.

  15. If the pond begins to dry up, the death of the organisms takes place, and the result is a most disagreeable, persistent odor which renders the water unfit for drinking purposes.

  16. The department will willingly furnish data for this purpose, together with blanks upon which to submit details as to contaminating organisms and water temperature, to any applicant.

  17. Growth, or Increase of Bulk Perhaps the widest and most familiar induction of biology is that organisms grow.

  18. We have found that organisms are mostly built up of compounds which are stores of force.

  19. Why Do Organisms Cease to Grow Why should not all organisms, when supplied with sufficient material, continue to grow as long as they live?

  20. Obviously, this antagonism between assimilation and expenditure must be a leading cause of the contrast in size between allied organisms that are in many respects similarly conditioned.

  21. Fourth, that among organisms that are large expenders of force, the size ultimately attained is, other things equal, determined by the initial size.

  22. It is an interesting fact that the spine is the central and fundamental structure of all the higher organisms on this earth.

  23. According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide.

  24. If they are exposed to the ordinary atmosphere around us, why, of course, you may have organisms appearing early.

  25. What he says is, in substance: All organisms vary.

  26. In any of these cases, the organisms may be crushed or be mutilated, before or after putrefaction, in such a manner that perhaps only a part will be left in the form in which it reaches us.

  27. Pelzeln has also objected that if the later organisms have proceeded from the earlier, the whole developmental series, from the simplest to the highest, could not now exist; in such a case the simpler organisms must have disappeared.

  28. Organisms vary incessantly; of these variations the few meet with surrounding conditions which suit them and thrive; the many are unsuited and become extinguished.

  29. Pasteur's experiments proved, therefore, in the most conclusive manner, that all the appearances of spontaneous generation arose from nothing more than the deposition of the germs of organisms which were constantly floating in the air.

  30. A tendency of organisms to give rise to useful varieties, and a natural selection, do not exist.

  31. He found that even the mercury itself was positively full of organic matters; that from being constantly exposed to the air, it had collected an immense number of these infusorial organisms from the air.

  32. The extent to which the word mind may be employed as the inherent cause of purposive movements in organisms is a very difficult question to solve.

  33. In the cell-communities of the micro-organisms there is undoubtedly present the power to communicate on the part of the several cells composing the community, and the pain or discomfort of one part is evidently felt by the whole community.

  34. As a result of a long process of such differentiation, the organisms of the larger animals and of man came to be composed, as we find them, of thirty or more different species of cells.

  35. The epithelial cells that secrete the nails and hair are organisms perfected with reference to the secretion of protective parts.

  36. Similarly, the cells of the brain are organisms that have been perfected with reference to psychical attributes.

  37. From the absence of the ooze in these profound depths, the conclusion is forced upon us that the hard parts of the minute organisms are dissolved while falling through three or four miles of the ocean water.

  38. The hard parts of both plant and animal organisms descend to the bottom and there form the ooze in which are sometimes found the ear bones of whales and the teeth of sharks.

  39. These principles come into play only by bringing organisms into new relations with each other, and in a lesser degree with the surrounding physical conditions.

  40. Candolle in regard to plants, namely, that the lower any group of organisms is, the more widely it is apt to range.

  41. In an unbleached rye meal there existed no less than 2,400 micro-organisms per gramme of the meal.

  42. By this time all yeasts, moulds, mucors, and other complex growing organisms had been eliminated.

  43. It is of the utmost importance that water used in the bakery be free from organic matter that is detrimental to health, as many such organisms have a tendency to set up putrefactive fermentation in doughs.

  44. On further examination after incubation at suitable temperatures, most of the above-mentioned proved to be just the common micro-organisms existing in flours and bread.

  45. In addition to the debris from the land and the rain of the hard parts of organisms from the water covering the continental shelf there is in northern regions a third but less important source of material furnished by floating ice.

  46. This is a sufficient promise that many records of life, and it seems safe to predict as varied an assemblage of organisms as the at present known Cambrian fauna, will ultimately be discovered in the Algonkian or lower rocks.

  47. The organisms which supply this material are in the main microscopic and live especially in the warmer seas in countless myriads.

  48. From this mode of origin it may be truthfully inferred that limestone may have been formed during any age since organisms having the power of secreting calcium carbonate existed on the earth.

  49. It results, then, from the foregoing facts that Cobra-venom contains a cytolysin, which acts upon micro-organisms and is capable of fixing the alexin of normal serums.

  50. In hot countries, even when snake-bites are not fatal, they are frequently complicated by local suppuration or gangrene, occasioned by micro-organisms introduced at the time of the bite.

  51. By my instructions this bacteriolytic property of venom with respect to different species of micro-organisms was studied by Noc.

  52. The organisms constituting this plankton are mostly unicellular, often aggregated together in colonies, and the remarkable structure which they exhibit has added a new chapter to the story of adaptation to environment.

  53. Its food consists of microscopic organisms and organic particles; these are drawn into the mouth FIG.

  54. In biology, according to the doctrine of evolution, adaptation plays a prominent part as the process by which an organism or species of organisms becomes modified to suit the conditions of its life.

  55. Even touch, though imoortant as a source of knowledge, has for its primary function to examine the things which approach our organisms in their relation to this as injurious or harmless.

  56. The former view is based on the existence in the lake of organisms of a decidedly marine type.

  57. Darwin that, in the case of most animals and plants in a state of nature, the competition of other organisms is a far more efficient agency in limiting their distribution than the mere influence of climate.

  58. Without the presence of septic organisms abscess does not occur.

  59. It may now be stated definitely that all known living organisms arise only from pre-existing living organisms.

  60. Small perforating wounds of the bowel are treated by such suturing as the circumstances may suggest, the interior of the abdominal cavity being rendered as free from septic micro-organisms as possible.

  61. Cattle and sheep stand patiently in the enclosures, higher organisms break them down and go out into freedom.

  62. Sensitiveness in her demanded the accomplishment of her wishes as imperiously as, in organisms of another sort, hunger claims satisfaction for the body.

  63. In the very same way, organisms with supersensitive nerves feel the approach of atmospheric storms.

  64. The chief vegetable organisms found in urine are the sugar fungus and the Penicillium glaucum.

  65. Public or governmental hygiene has been chiefly concerned with pure air and pure food, and with organisms producing epidemic diseases.

  66. Besides the organisms of nature have their law of population, the establishment of which would decide the theories of the development of species.

  67. Sensation is therefore the characteristic of all animal organisms that is the capacity of conscious subjective recognition of circumstances.

  68. The statement that Darwin traced all existing organisms from one original germ is to put it politely a piece of pure imagination on the part of Herr Duehring.

  69. Later investigations throw organisms out of one class into another, and marks of distinction which have become articles of faith lose their individual reality.

  70. All of these are connected with the higher organisms only by virtue of the fact that protoplasm is its substantial foundation, and that they fulfill the functions of protoplasm, that is they live and die.

  71. In another place he says "There is a simple fundamental type in nature belonging to all organisms from the lowest to the highest" and this type is to be met "in the subordinate movements of the most undeveloped plants.

  72. Up to then the worlds were fixed in bounds and conditions from their very beginning, and though the individual organisms on the separate worlds were transient, the species remained unalterable.

  73. Therefore it was, up to a certain point, proved that species can change and furthermore there was established the possibility of a common ancestry for organisms which partake of the characteristics of different species.

  74. It was not until so late as the year 1880 that attention was turned toward the possibility of the micro-organisms in sewage.

  75. They contended that if all the organisms could be destroyed, that sewage would be rendered unobjectionable.

  76. To the superficial observer, however, it is chiefly a process of digestion, in which the various, mostly microscopically small, animal and vegetable organisms utilize the organically fixed power for their life purpose.

  77. But if six cool scientific intellects, acquainted with the tricks of their own organisms and determined to dissever thought from motion, were to sit round a table, they might sit till doomsday without the "spirit" turning up.

  78. But while individual organisms are thus constantly perishing and disappearing from the stage, the particular kind, or species, remains in existence.

  79. In him, as in lower, intermediate forms of life, the life of the individual is but a summary of the lives of all numberless minute organisms of which his body is composed.

  80. The power of organizing is possessed only by the lower class of living or organized bodies, those known as vegetable organisms or plants.

  81. As the structure of the individual becomes more complex and its functions more varied, the greater is the number of separate, yet associated, organisms to do the work.

  82. This process, by which new organisms make their appearance, to take the place of those which are destroyed, is known as the process of reproduction or generation.

  83. Most vegetable organisms remain stationary, while some possess organs of locomotion, and swim about in the water in a manner much resembling the movements of certain animals.

  84. Dredging - the practice of deepening an existing waterway; also, a technique used for collecting bottom-dwelling marine organisms (e.

  85. Ecosystems - ecological units comprised of complex communities of organisms and their specific environments.

  86. The limits set to that incarnated intelligence which organisms possess.

  87. This life is not a sojourn in a vale of tears, but the scene of the attempts of socially-minded, conscious organisms to achieve a temperate and fairly happy existence.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "organisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.