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An [[egg]] is an organic container within which the embryos of some organisms grow.

...ntirely of organisms; many [[intelligence|intelligent]] [[race]]s are also organisms, including [[human]]s. ...study of life in general (more usually called [[etory]]), and the study of organisms in particular is called "eubiology", but this usage, already in the minorit

...two phenomena are related, and that the élan âmal from dying organisms somehow becomes the gravitational élan motif, but no really satisfac ...source not only of motion in Usm, but also of [[vital magic|magic]]. All organisms can manipulate élan vital to some extent—they do so to move an

...behind biological evolution is [[natural selection]], the process by which organisms with traits that tend to make them slightly more likely to survive and repr ...ds themselves), but where that life, again, sufficiently resembles evolved organisms to be placed in the same taxa. In any case, even where such life forms did

...ization covering numerous [[planet]]s. Nelder develop from three separate organisms, a fact that has a number of consequences for their biology and culture. F ...ngle nelde. The process of the yanwe takes several days, during which the organisms remain in close contact. Neither the mapar, nor the laman, nor the nu is p

...reason are incapable of interbreeding. Furthermore, it fails to apply to organisms that reproduce asexually, and is rendered problematic by the phenomenon of ...eproducing organisms, a species is more or less defined as a population of organisms that is more or less reproductively isolated, that reproduces exclusively,

...le solid matter aside from the worlddisks, and while there are some living organisms native to dreamspace they're certainly far sparser than on the disks. But

...e restrictive, referring to a particular [[kingdom (taxonomy)|kingdom]] of organisms. A [[race]] is an [[ellogy|ellogous]] species of life form, one capable of ...The study of the internal structure of living things (again, especially of organisms) is called [[anatomy]]. The study of cyclical phenomena in life forms' beh

...ism|commensal]] organisms; others may be induced by [[parasite|parasitic]] organisms to develop structures they would not otherwise bear.

...sense, still qualify as evolution, in the sense that they have to do with organisms changing over time into different forms; they just wouldn't be evolution by

The word "flora" is also used to describe all the floral organisms of a particular area or environment. When it is necessary to disambiguate Collectively, the flora, fauna, and other organisms of an area or environment may be referred to as the local [[biota]].

...he ancestors of modern plants became multicellular by separate unicellular organisms joining together colonially, while the ancestors of animals and fungi were

...l method of [[reproduction]], replenishing their numbers by causing larger organisms to split into a number of new sanhvin. Sanhvin are [[omnivore|omnivorous]], eating any organisms in their habitat that they are able to catch. Some sanhvin colonies or ind

...zone, which stretches for nearly a kilometer in places and is home to some organisms unique to the area. Most of these creatures are small and inoffensive, but

Often life is defined according to a set of particular criteria. Living organisms take in nutrients, reproduce, and react to their environments. While such ...mingle the [[gene]]s that direct their form and development, although many organisms can reproduce simply by [[binary fission|dividing in two]], or by yet other

...onic blasts is that they can be easily heard from a distance, giving other organisms in the vicinity warning that a qennis is on the hunt nearby. Of course, th

...thrive in the whitewoods, able to subsist on the undead plants where most organisms could not, and in turn some small [[animal]]s are able to get by by eating ...ion in the first place, and that then accumulates within some of the other organisms that feed on the undead plants, can be tapped for various purposes. Whitew