Yesterday my brother was asking about what an organism is as he started to learn about microorganisms in school. He kept thinking an organism had to be tiny e.g microbes, so instead of describing humans as organisms i said macroorgansims. Just wondered if a macroorganisms is a real word or just me mixing words about?

 

Thanks.

No, I'm pretty sure that you are just mixing words around.

Just out of intrest though, did you mean multicellular organisms?

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i thought only girls had those?

 

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sorry, I couldn't resist.

You really should have tried harder to resist

Just wondered if a macroorganisms is a real word?

Yes.

Google produces over 3000 hits, including this link to a professional group dedicated to macroorganisms!

http://www.ibma.ch/pg_macroorganisms/

so macroorganisms are basically insects, and humans are just organsims. serves me right for mixing words...

Macroorganisms are any organisms visible to the naked eye.

and humans are organsims visible to the naked eye, so that makes me right!

is that mean marcoorganism = multicellular organism?

More or less, although some single celled organisms can be just seen with your naked eye.