Word: organismic
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"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)
Dusan Makavejev, the film maker who Went Too Far with his anarchist collages W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie, has run for cover to Sweden and emerged with this shaggy act of atonement. It is not his fault that he was seven years between pictures, or that his...
On some kernels, McClintock began finding curious, quirky patterns of pigmentation. A less imaginative scientist might have dismissed them as natural variations occurring at random. But through painstaking record keeping and careful analysis, McClintock discerned a method in nature's seeming madness. The pigment genes, those causing the splotch...
What a waste it would be after 4 billion tortuous years of evolution if the dominant organism contrived its own self-destruction," Carl Sagan, popular guardian of the cosmos and professor of astronomy at Cornell, told a crowd of 2,000 in Ithaca, N.Y. "We are the first species to...
Most pheromones are produced by glands and are released immediately into the environment, where they influence the behavior of other members of the species. By contrast, hormones, which are blood-borne, convey information from tissue to tissue within an individual organism.