Sentences with phrase «because simpler organisms»

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To explain how his hypothetical code - script might work — it had to be extremely complicated because it involved «all the future development of the organism» — Schrödinger resorted to some simple mathematics to show how the variety of different molecules found in an organism could be encoded.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

The simple, single - celled creatures have captured scientists» interest because they are unlike any other organism known to science.

Antibiotics and other modern medicines do not work on viruses because these radically simple organisms infiltrate cells and hijack their processes to serve their own purposes.

When I was a student, I became interested in microbes because they were presented to me as these very interesting yet simple organisms, which scientists could isolate to understand how they worked.

«The genomes of even simple organisms such as the fruit fly contain 120 million letters worth of DNA, much of which has yet to be decoded because the cues its provides have been too subtle for existing tools to pick up,» says coauthor Richard Mann, a biochemist at Columbia University in a statement.

Mitochondria were once simple independent organisms, but over time they incorporated themselves into our cells because we developed a symbiotic, or mutually beneficial, relationship with them.

In very simple terms, this theory means that our immune system begins to attack our thyroid gland because we are infected with a pathogenic organism (like a bacteria, parasite, or virus), that looks similar to components of the thyroid gland.

Spirulina is a simple, one - celled organism that got its name from the Latin word for «helix» or «spiral» because of its spring - like physical characteristic.