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life-form

Biology
A generic term referring to organism’s shape or appearance.
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There is a danger that they might harbour microbes from Earth that could spread to the Martian surface and confuse further efforts to distinguish Martian life-forms from those of Earth.
A Catch-22 for Mars
London, December 9 ( ANI ): The first replicating life-forms on the planet may have originated deep underground, a study has suggested.
Life on Earth may have first originated deep underground
As redundant species within each life-form are not entirely equivalent, they have different tolerances to environmental constraints (Sarmiento, 1996).
Species convergence into life-forms in a hyperseasonal cerrado in central Brazil/Convergencia de especies em formas de vida em um cerrado hiperestacional no Brasil central
BREAKING OUT If Russell and Martin's theory has any chance of being right, naked, rock-cradled life-forms must at some point have invented the biochemistry required to produce their own membranes.
A rocky start: fresh take on life's oldest story
Fossils like these often help solve mysteries of evolution--the development or change of life-forms over long periods of time.
Guess who's coming to dinner?
This is no small step; never before have we decided on purpose to wipe out an entire life-form. Many scientists consider a virus a living thing, just like a flower or a peregrine falcon or a human being--even though a virus has no cells and is mostly DNA or RNA.
To kill a killer?
equitans may have such a minimalist genome because it represents a primitive life-form reminiscent of early life on the planet or because it's a highly evolved microbe that has streamlined its genome to the bare essentials.
Small wonder: microbial hitchhiker has few genes. (This week)
They've merely temporarily halted plans to use information drawn from their studies to create a new life-form.
Letters
Before attempting to create a new life-form in the laboratory, one group of scientists is pausing to allow reflection on the consequences of such an effort.
One small bacterial genome, to go
Every life-form possesses a genetic code that links it to the past and to the future, to the prior history of the species and to its afterlife in the species' later propagation.
Their so-called life: Norman Bryson on W. J. T. Mitchell
Red now becomes the hero, and leads the life-forms to a new home.
Pittman, Eddie: Red's Planet
NNA - 20/2/2011 Head of the Lebanese Astronomical Association Roger Hajjar summed up that "it will be a question of time before life-forms could be found in the Universe.
Roger Hajjar in quest of "life-forms" in the Universe

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