#organism

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#back #bacteria #case #crops #first

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. ↗

— Francois Jacob

#deepest #functions #future #living #living organisms

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brain #dwells #kind #may #organism

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#exemplified #genera #gradual #large #organisms

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#become #every #evident #evolution #evolving

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#ecosystem #natural-world #organism #life