Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In January of 1967, thousands of hippies heeded the blow of Beat poet Gary Snyder's conch and packed San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in the Be-In. Thus began the Summer of Love, in which young people from all over the country sought out the streets of San...
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)
The consequences will be a plague of mushrooms. That is how many fungi reproduce, and this mass of subterranean cytoplasm, known scientifically as Armillaria bulbosa, is one humongous fungus. The mushrooms are aboveground appendages of the real organism, a tangled mass of stringlike tendrils that spread below the surface. Just...
The Canadian and U.S. scientists who reported the discovery in last week's Nature solved this identity problem with the latest methods of DNA analysis. ; They found that all the samples within the sprawling study area were genetically identical -- meaning they had to be part of one, individual organism.
But just what is meant by an "individual"? A patch of grass that spread from a single seed may be considered an individual organism. The same is true with fungi, which, incidentally, are now looked upon as a kingdom separate from plants and animals. Complicating matters is the fact that...