Sentence examples for organisms called from inspiring English sources

Productive organisms, called autotrophs, convert light or chemicals into energy-rich organic compounds beginning with energy-poor carbon dioxide (CO2).

The so-called Challenger Deep contains many kinds of single-celled shelled organisms called foraminifera.

Created by delicate living organisms called polyps, they are easily killed.

Corals are actually colonies of individual organisms called polyps, which create the skeletal structure that binds them together.

The algae, single-cell organisms called schizochytria, are grown in huge tanks and dried, then incorporated into the feed.

However, most planktonic organisms, called plankters, are less than 1 millimetre (0.039 inch) long.

In the water, nitrogen serves as a major nutrient for microscopic organisms called phytoplankton.

These three still-living, though ancient, taxa make up a group of organisms called oncopods.

A natural toxin produced by marine organisms called dinoflagellates can cause ciguatera poisoning, a potential hazard from large fin fish, especially barracuda that frequent tropical reefs.

Although corals are animals, they also contain single-cell organisms called zooxanthellae that can photosynthesize, enabling the corals to share in energy captured directly from the sun.

Hopefully it's better than that of a class of small organisms called bdelloids, who haven't had so much as a date in at least 40 million years.