Sentences with phrase «are these dormant organisms»

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They may be regarded as precursors of human creativity, and point to the existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the normal routines of existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered by the environment — a zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.

A fruiting body is essentially a multicellular organism that produces dormant spores that are resistant to environmental stresses.

«However, the presence of DNA alone doesn't tell you much about the state of an organism — it could be dormant or dead, for example.

Some organisms thrive in salty environments by lying dormant when salt concentrations are very high.

If future missions can bring back organisms from those depths, researchers might be able to reanimate them if they have grown dormant, says Dartnell.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

In many cases, however, there are no symptoms evident at all, as the organism can lay dormant for a long time.

In every forest, carbon is constantly being absorbed as trees and other organisms grow, then released as they die or go dormant.