These organisms, called saprophytes, grow and multiply on nonliving organic matter that they use as food.

It is thought that this may be a means of communication between the organisms called "quorum sensing"; which may aid in behavior coordination.

Following this, because of the increasing demand, nine more schools were built, as well as a new organizational organism called General Direction.

That distinction fell to an organism called tokophrya.

Other organisms, called heterotrophs, take in autotrophs as food to carry out functions necessary for their life.

A. Marigolds can sometimes repel the microscopic organisms called nematodes, but these plants have no power over mammals.

The organism called chlamydia caused almost half a million infections here last year, and some evidence now connects it with heart attacks as well.

Unlike bacteria, these organisms, called eukaryotes, have nuclei in their cells.

And still others, including an organism called cryptosporidium, can be fatal for people with damaged immune systems.

It is done to kill microbiological organisms, called sterilization.