Organism vs Allocrine - What's the difference?
organism | allocrine |
(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
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, title= (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
(physiology) Relating to or denoting foreign hormones being taken up and eliciting a response in an organism (for example, hormones in breast milk.)
As a noun organism
is (biology) a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.As an adjective allocrine is
(physiology) relating to or denoting foreign hormones being taken up and eliciting a response in an organism (for example, hormones in breast milk).organism
English
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(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}