Sentences with phrase «animals over millennia»

No other species could have accomplished the task of putting some of the carbon back into the atmosphere that was taken out and locked in the Earth's crust by plants and animals over the millennia.

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

Not exact matches

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

Cells of plants and animals have evolved over millennia to produce molecules that specifically degrade RNA of viruses that invade cells while not attacking the cell's own mRNA.

Yet over the millennia, we've created a modern society which rewards deferred gratification and forward thinking — very much removed from our basic animal instincts.

Birdlife and indigenous animals can all be seen here, and the plant life is ancient and little changed over many millennia.

Beever said he was most surprised to find groups of animals disappearing over decades, rather than in centuries or millenniums, as they have during climatic swings of the distant past.