Algae are simply plants or plant-like organisms.

藻类是一种简单的植物或植物样生物。

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Filamentous bacteria, especially Methanothrix soehgenii-like organisms, play an important role in the granules.

丝状细菌，特别是索氏甲烷丝菌类似菌在颗粒污泥中起着重要作用；

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Small fish and invertebrates also graze on the plant-like organisms, and then those smaller animals are eaten by bigger ones.

小鱼和无脊椎动物也以这些植物类生物为食，然后则是众所周知的小鱼吃虾米，大鱼吃小鱼。

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They kill parts of coral colonies or communities, so that simple organisms like algae can grow.

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So these organisms like this are abundant in the world around us and our immune system prevents us from getting sick most of the time.

在我们周围充斥着像这样的生物体,而免疫系统在大多数时候能够抵御疾病

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In complex organisms like humans there's another step that we're still only learning about now.

在像人类这样的复杂有机体中,还有另一个我们至今仍未完全了解的步骤

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For instance Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt, both of the Santa Fe Institute, found that cities scale much like organisms.

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Some scientists suspect Mars once sheltered primitive, bacteria-like organisms and previous missions found evidence Mars at one time boasted ample quantities of water.

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Some of the data it gathered about the abundance of phytoplankton - plant-like organisms that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and provide food for other sea life - could already be monitored by satellite.

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