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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
His system has gained wide acceptance in the sense that publications report life-form categories as a matter of routine (Westoby, 1998) and, thus, is suitable for the scope of our study.
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
For in a sense images do indeed behave like species or life-forms.
Their so-called life: Norman Bryson on W. J. T. Mitchell
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
It was probably a transitional species--a life-form that evolved sometime between dinosaurs and birds, says paleontologist Luis Chiappe, who was also on the Gobi dig.
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.
To kill a killer?
Upon its return trip to planet Earth, the massive vessel "Vehicle Aki" is suddenly rocked by an inter-stellar shock wave which allows a hostile alien life-form to penetrate the ship's defense mechanisms.
Sega's New Pistol Packin' Heroine Kicks Butt She Can't Even See in "Enemy Zero"
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
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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