organismal
IPA: ɔrgʌnˈɪzmʌɫ
adjective
- Of or relating to an organism or organisms.
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Examples of "organismal" in Sentences
- Put another way, how many organismal lineages carrying those characters crossed the Darwinian threshold?
- This is a “Darwinian threshold” or “transition,” the point at which molecular homology now reliably indicates organismal, or vertical, descent:
- The universal phylogenetic tree, therefore, is not an organismal tree at its base but gradually becomes one as its peripheral branchings emerge.
- So what changes at the "Darwinian threshold" to make molecular homology a reliable indicator of common ancestry [organismal descent] above that point, but not below?
- Words like "latent evolutionary potential was realized", "realize preexisting evolutionary potential" and "a major innovation in organismal complexity — first the eukaryotic cell and later eukaryotic multicellularity" seem to have raised a few eye brows.
- I replied that when molecular homology is decoupled from organismal (vertical) descent, as Woese and others have done for universally-shared characters such as the genetic code, unexpected consequences follow for inferences about the branches of the Tree of Life.
- There seemed no possibility of assessing the overall congruence of organismal and molecular trees, because microbial systematists had given up on the former and since the mid 1950s have been content with more practical schemes aimed at reliable species-level identification (38, 39).
- Given that these lines of ancestry do not converge to a point, but pass through an interval of indeterminate width into a communal state, the set of ancestors of any eukaryote will not include a universally shared organismal member (usually referred to the literature as the last eukaryotic common ancestor, LECA).
- No existing observations support such a claim, and given the massive global dominance of unicellular species over multicellular eukaryotes, both in terms of species richness and numbers of individuals, if there is an advantage of organismal complexity, one can only marvel at the inability of natural selection to promote it.
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