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• benthos go
  organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea
  
• dwarf go
  a plant or animal that is atypically small
  
• heterotroph go
  an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
  
• parent go
  an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
  
• person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul go
  a human being
  
• animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna go
  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  
• plant, flora, plant life go
  (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
  
• native go
  indigenous plants and animals
  
• recombinant go
  a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred
  
• conspecific go
  an organism belonging to the same species as another organism
  
• carrier go
  (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele
  
• denizen go
  a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  
• amphidiploid go
  (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
  
• diploid go
  (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell
  
• haploid go
  (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
  
• heteroploid go
  (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species
  
• polyploid go
  (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
  
• animalcule, animalculum go
  microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
  
• microorganism, micro-organism go
  any organism of microscopic size
  
• aerobe go
  an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life
  
• anaerobe go
  an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live
  
• cross, hybrid, crossbreed go
  (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock
  
• polymorph go
  an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites
  
• congener, relative, congenator, congeneric go
  an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
  
• plankton go
  the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
  
• nekton go
  the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
  
• parasite go
  an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant)
  
• host go
  an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite
  
• commensal go
  either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent
  
• myrmecophile go
  an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant
  
• eukaryote, eucaryote go
  an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria
  
• prokaryote, procaryote go
  a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei
  
• zooid go
  one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
  
• clone, clon go
  a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction
  
• throwback, atavist go
  an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
  
• individual go
  a single organism
  
• mascot go
  a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
  
• variation, sport, mutant, mutation go
  (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
  
• postdiluvian go
  anything living after Noah's flood
  
• sitter go
  an organism (person or animal) that sits
  
• stander go
  an organism (person or animal) that stands
  
• vocalizer, vocaliser, utterer go
  an organism that can utter vocal sounds
  
• fungus go
  an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter
  
• nonvascular organism go
  organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses
  
• relict go
  an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated
  
• saprophyte, saprophytic organism go
  an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium
  
• saprobe go
  an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water
  
• katharobe go
  an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter