Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The claim is so dramatic and startling that some biologists, perhaps mindful of the recent flap over test-tube atomic fusion, have been wary of taking it at face value. But an experiment reported by researchers at the University of Rome and at that city's Institute of Biomedical Technology...
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)
But when Susman argued that there is a fundamental right to abortion, Scalia appeared to see the border of one right impinging upon another. "It is very hard to say . . . that it must be a fundamental right," he replied, "unless you make the determination that the organism that is destroyed...
Reading these genetic words and deciphering their meaning is apparently a snap for the clever machinery of a cell. But for mere scientists it is a formidable and time-consuming task. For instance, a snippet of DNA might read ACGGTAGAT, a message that researchers can decipher rather easily. It codes...
Through most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well. By 1800 there were 1 billion human beings bestriding the planet. That number had doubled by 1930 and doubled again by 1975. If current birthrates hold, the world's...