About Rockford Salaries. In Rockford, Illinois, the average salary is $45,782. As of Q2 2017, the trend in wages is going up with a 1.5 percent increase over last quarter. The cost of living in Rockford is 10.4 percent less expensive than the national average. Popular jobs in Rockford include Office Manager, Operations Manager, and Mechanical Engineer which pay between $42,630 and $67,102 per year. Some popular Rockford industries include Manufacturing, Aerospace and Defense, and Health Care.
Organism. Definition. noun, plural: organisms. (Science: Biology). An individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis. It can be a virus, bacterium, protist, fungus, plant or an animal. Supplement. Word origin: Greek organon = instrument.
The term organism (from Greek á½ÏÎ³Î±Î½Î¹ÏÎ¼ÏÏ, organismos, from á½ÏÎ³Î±Î½Î¿Î½, organon, i.e. instrument, implement, tool, organ of sense or apprehension) first appeared in the English language in 1703 and took on its current definition by 1834 (Oxford English Dictionary).It is directly related to the term organization.ungi, animals and plants are examples of kingdoms of organisms within the eukaryotes. In 2002, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, author of Branching order of bacterial phyla, proposed a clade, Neomura, which groups together the Archaea and Eukarya.