Sentences with phrase «about plant evolution»

It was challenging and fun to connect directly with a true sample of the local community, and they all seemed to really enjoy hearing about plant evolution!

Vern, You should read about plant evolution.

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To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

Understanding evolution has helped in bringing about new plants for better farming and new medicines and understanding disease.

It Isn't Just the Ambiance by Heather Sevener, 16 April 2004 Although Ph.D. candidate Heather Sevener enjoyed learning about the evolution of plant development and was happy in an academic environment, she couldn't stand being at the bench.

Elizabeth Pennisi Senior Correspondent Writes about ecology, evolution, molecular and cell biology, genetics, and plant sciences.

However, flowering plants arose only about 140 million years ago, quite late in the evolution of plants, toward the end of the age of the dinosaurs, but since then have diversified spectacularly.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

And so the microbial world was delegated to an invisible world in the 18th century — as natural philosophers turned to questions about the evolution of plants and animals, and the geologic structures that contained fossil remains of extinct organisms.

This work and studies of flowering plants, which are also quite diverse, is forcing a rethink about just how genome duplications influence evolution.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anevolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anEvolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

The future will be using these tools combined with large shared data sets to test fundamental hypotheses about the evolution and distribution of plants and animals,» says Dr. Laurence J. Dorr, Chair of the Smithsonian Department of Botany and co-author of the study.

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

As for evolution's supposed failure to solve biological puzzles, Wolfe might revisit Darwin's description of how evolution not only unlocks enigmas about embryology and vestigial organs, but clarifies some perplexing geographic ranges of animals and plants.

The sequencing studies, reported in the December 16, 1999, issue of the journal Nature, provide a great deal of new information about chromosome structure, evolution, and gene organization in plants.

When we think of evolution, we often think about physical changes, like a plant developing broader leaves to collect more solar energy.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

So there is the first bit of information: If you do not believe that the climate is warming on a global scale then in terms of evolution you are less knowledgeable about your environment (less intelligent) then the great majority of animals, plants, insects, and even ocean dwelling single celled organisms like plankton.