organism

But for organisms that don’t stay still, the counting is a little trickier.

They use organisms that have naturally evolved a way to genetically modify plants.

A genetically modified organism, or GMO, is any living thing that’s had its DNA changed in some way.

But yeah, among organisms with a backbone, the average genetic diversity is only one-quarter of one percent (0.25%).

This is possible because organisms evolve when random mutations happen in the DNA of reproductive cells.

Like with anything, not all organisms defecate the same way we do.

Another way is to trap the organism, mark them in a harmless way, and then release them back into the wild.

Like, if organisms of the same species are trapped together on an island for hundreds of generations, with nobody leaving and nobody new coming — easy, boom, population.

The young man spent years on remote islands, investigating living organisms and taking careful notes on their differences.

And we've now tried it in loads of different contexts, in loads of animals and loads of different organisms, at loads of different times in life.