organismal
- adjective
- /ˌɔrɡəˈnɪzməl/
- Specialized
- In organismal biology, understanding how an organism functions as a whole is crucial to the study.
- organismal biology
- organismal evolution
- organismal biologists
Examples
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Hormones and growth factors are typically produced in response to slow, global alterations in organismal state, such as chronic stress or changes in dietary patterns.
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At the organismal level, however, sexual reproduction is not the same as duplication.
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Development of the organismal biology community.
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Communities of organismal biologists must collectively develop and agree on common standards for terminology and data structures.
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The first paper, by Lynch and Wagner, tests Dollo's Law at the organismal level.
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Organismal biology also focuses on the role of individual variability in the evolutionary maintenance of diversity.
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A renewed focus on organismal biology is inevitably interdisciplinary, and it faces all of the well-known challenges of interdisciplinary research.
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Organismal biology of plants: What morphological and physiological features are characteristic of high-yielding plant varieties?
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But in treating them solely as a community-level ecological phenomenon, we overlook their organismal-level features and their significance in mycology and botany.
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Organismal ecology studies how different species interact as part of a larger ecosystem.
Synonyms
Relating to a living thing seen as a whole
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word organismal comes from organism and the part organ, which means 'tool' or a 'body part' that does a job. So organismal means 'relating to the whole living being', because an organism is a living thing made of parts that work together.