siphonophores—a group of creatures related to jellyfish and corals—may look like one organism, but they are actually made up of many thousands of individual, specialized clones that come ...

The cells of all organisms contain genetic information in their DNA as a two-base-pair sequence made up of four molecules – A, T, C, G (Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Guanine). Each of these is ...

But it cannot grow or make baby cars. So, a car is not alive. All living organisms are made up of cells. Cells are the building units of life - the basic building blocks of all animals and plants.

This study has revealed that an enzyme in E-coli bacteria breaks down the contents of cells into nutrients after death ...

The organism waves its bulbous ... Curved origami-like pleats make it possible for the single-celled protist Lacrymaria olor to extend its neck up to 30 times its body length in less than 30 ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.