Hans Adolf Krebs

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

German Physicist

Richard J. Roberts

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

English Scientist

Robert Sapolsky

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn't been discovered yet. It's just another way of stating that we're biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.

American Scientist

Nick Woodman

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

American Businessman

Nick Cave

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

Australian Musician

Paul D. Boyer

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Roman Statesman

Kevin Kelly

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

American Editor

Genesis P-Orridge

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

English Musician

Francois Jacob

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

French Scientist

Think of organisms as individual entities that grow, reproduce, and respond to their environment.

Living Examples

Organisms can vary dramatically in size from tiny bacteria to giant whales.

Scale Variation

Organisms live in diverse habitats, so specify the environment when possible.

Habitat Diversity

Non-living systems are sometimes called organisms to stress their interrelated parts.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'organism' implies complexity and multiple components working together.

Complexity Implication

Focus on how parts of the 'organism' contribute to the function of the whole.

Systemic Perspective

 for lots of organisms, like frogs and fish and birds. Without them, plants would lose a pollinator. But some scientists say that mosquitos aren't actually all that important. If we got rid of them, they argue, another species would simply take their place and we'd probably have far fewer deaths from malaria.

The loathsome, lethal...

 JEFFREY As a scientist, we often go to some of the most extreme places on our planet, to collect microbes, bring 'em back, understand what they're doing and how they work. These types of organisms can actually broaden our search for life beyond earth. By knowing what microbes are capable of,

Searching For Life in...

 Deep underground lies stores of once inaccessible natural gas. This gas was likely formed over millions of years as layers of decaying organisms were exposed to intense heat and pressure under the Earth's crust. There's a technology called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,

How does fracking work?...

 this ability allows an organism to seek out shade and hide from predators. Over the millenia, as such light cups grew deeper in some organisms, the opening at the front grew smaller. The result was a pinhole effect, which increased resolution dramatically,

The evolution of the...

 This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good if the many other processes involved in the respiratory cycle are no longer functioning.

At what moment are you...

 mixing of the ocean the transport of these nutrients and elements that are necessary to sustain life is vitally important to the ocean and those organisms and I study whether or not organisms are able to contribute to that

Footprints in the ocean...

 And all cells come from preexisting cells. To be honest, this all sounds incredibly boring until you dig a little deeper into how the world of microscopic organisms, and this theory came to be.

The wacky history of...

 Life is everywhere, absolutely everywhere. Everything you see in this picture is a living organism. Maybe not so the diver, but everything else. But this picture is very deceiving.

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 There's an organism that changed the world. It caused both the first mass extinction in Earth's history and also paved the way for complex life. How?

How a single-celled...

 the loss of even the smallest organisms destabilizes the world's ecosystems the networks that support the whole of life on earth