Sentences with phrase «as tadpoles»

They are purchased from other shops or mail order houses as tadpoles so that kids can have the experience of seeing the transformation process.

The tadpoles recognize their fathers by scent and swarm around him for the duration of their time as tadpoles.

The Indian Purple frog skeleton undergoes dramatic transformation as tadpoles clinging to underwater rocks become adults digging their way underground, according to a study published March 30, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Gayani Senevirathne from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and colleagues.

Levin is now studying flatworms as obsessively as tadpoles.

«They» were cannibalistic spadefoot toad larvae, commonly known as tadpoles.

However, cannibals did not grow as fast as tadpoles that were fed a protein - rich mixture of brine shrimp, suggesting that the cannibal diet was far from ideal.

Elisa is also looking at giant water - bugs as another tadpole predator.

The basic idea is to fool the toads» immune systems into thinking that adult toad proteins are foreign, and so mounting an attack on them as the tadpole develops into a toadlet.

Species that live downslope will also be hurt by changes on mountaintops; the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog, for example, depends on runoff from snowpack year - round to support its three - to four - year life stage as a tadpole, and earlier spring snowmelt runoff caused by global warming may leave this hardy, once - abundant creature high and dry in the summertime.

Not exact matches

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It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

Roger Shinn, who taught ethics for many years at Union Theological Seminary in New York, offers a clearly written essay, «Between Eden and Babel,» in which he explores in brief compass many of the moral issues involved as well as some of the first ethical discussions of cloning more than thirty years ago after tadpoles had been cloned.

While some of the metamorphoses that DO occur in nature, eg caterpillar into butterfly or tadpole into frog, are as spectacular or arguably even more spectacular than your fish to frog morph, the simple fact is that evolution doesn't happen to individual organisms.

The friar noted such exotic variations as maguey worms with a sauce of small chiles, newt with yellow chiles, and tadpoles with

The friar noted such exotic variations as maguey worms with a sauce of small chiles, newt with yellow chiles, and tadpoles with chiltecpitl.

Take this opportunity to practice some basic vocabulary such as eggs, tadpole, and frog with toddlers.

You might even go as far as teaching that a tadpole turns into a frog!

I'm also enjoying cloth diapers made by several WAHMs as of late: Diapers by Chris, Ella Bella Bum, and Tadpole Jones Diaper Supply (among others).

Perhaps the most astonishing stage of pregnancy is that of the embryonic development as your unborn child goes from being the size of a sesame seed and looking like a tadpole to being the size of a kidney bean with some neck definition and tiny webbed fingers and toes.

The ball of cells now resembles a tadpole and it is big as a peppercorn.

Tadpole and Taper must have known they were being a bit fly, just as reporters who record private lunches with doddery old ex-ministers or Vince Cable's constituency surgery boasting about Rupert Murdoch know they are being fly.

I stood quietly and watched as hundreds of conspicuously larger tadpoles crisscrossed the pond, making frequent excursions from the deeper water toward the shore in a relentless search for prey.

Natural selection, therefore, would favor any adaptations enabling the water - dependent tadpoles to get out of the pool as quickly as possible (i.e., to grow legs).

The Tadpole galaxy (top left) sports a long tail of stars and gas pulled out by the gravity of a galactic interloper, visible as a small blue clump in the upper part of the Tadpole's disk.

Co-orbital bodies that orbit the Sun in the same direction as a planet can follow trajectories (blue curves with arrows) that, from the perspective of the planet, look like tadpoles, horseshoes or «quasi-satellites.»

Only one test — in which Wilson simulated a predator by squirting water at the animals — revealed a personality shift; a tadpole that responded by freezing in place for a long time was just as likely to become a frog that resumed normal activities right away.

As a result, conditions were fantastic for frog eggs: About three times the normal number of eggs hatched and released tadpoles that grew into frogs.

It is the only land vertebrate where the male becomes pregnant, carrying and brooding tadpoles inside its vocal sac until they metamorphose and are spat out as baby frogs.

Sperm having ornaments may come as a surprise, considering humans» relatively simple tadpole - like cells.

Students from Riebli Elementary and Mark West Charter School in California examine whether Triops longicaudatus, or tadpole shrimp, could be grown in microgravity as a food source for long - term missions.

The tough - yet - fragile physical properties of the tadpole - shaped pieces of glass known as Prince Rupert's drops have puzzled physicists for as long as, well, there have been physicists.

Warkentin, of Boston University, built the «rollie widget,» as she calls it, not to make tadpoles dizzy, but to help answer one of biology's most mystifying questions.

A scent's location on the map also predicts the brain activity caused by getting a whiff: previous research in a variety of animals such as fruit flies, honeybees, mice, rats and tadpoles showed that neighboring odors cause similar patterns of neuron activity.

This new frog is one of only 10 or 12 species that has evolved internal fertilization, and of those, it is the only one that gives birth to tadpoles as opposed to froglets or laying fertilized eggs.»

Why Edward Heath, when he became prime minister, kept him on as his Chief Scientific Adviser beggars belief, especially as earlier, when he was Leader of the Opposition, Heath had referred to Zuckerman as a «professor of tadpoles».

Wood frog tadpoles, for example, received as much as 70 % of their nitrogen from septic wastewater in some cases.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

The EPA then uses WatchFrog's tadpole test as a middle step to discover which suspicious chemicals require expensive, time - consuming toxicology tests, says Kevin Crofton, acting deputy director of the EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology.

Because of this lapse, WatchFrog is targeting its tests to OECD guidelines, which define hormone disruptors as chemicals that can disrupt the ability of a fish to produce eggs or change sex or prevent a tadpole from metamorphosing.

In this process, the eggs incubate on land before the frogs hatch as miniature adults, skipping the tadpole stage completely.

Tadpoles were allowed to swim in a solution of 5 mM BrdU (Roche Inc.) in 0.1 × MMR for 1 — 4 h at room temperature and sections stained as previously described [39].

The researchers were surprised to learn that road salt caused a change of sex, from female to male, in tadpoles — the opposite of the feminization effect sometimes seen as

The researchers were surprised to learn that road salt caused a change of sex, from female to male, in tadpoles — the opposite of the feminization effect sometimes seen as pharmaceutical pollutants affect waterways.

The team believes this may mean that overly high salinity can decrease the frog population as salt molecules mimic testosterone, causing the masculinization of tadpoles.

In laboratory trials, most native tadpoles will try to eat toad eggs, and die as a result.

There are also strange, «tadpole» - like objects, disturbed and apparently merging galaxies dubbed «train wrecks,» as well as a multitude of faint, «dwarf» galaxies.

We have now identified the exact chemicals involved in that process, and used them as bait to attract cane toad tadpoles (but not frog tadpoles) into traps, for toad control.

In terms of collateral damage, tadpole pheromones don't affect native frogs (or any other native animals, so far as we know).

One of the major complications in understanding cane toads and their impact is the toad's complicated life - history — including eggs and tadpoles in the water as well as larger toads hopping around on dry land.

According to a report by The Telegraph, the tadpole shrimp as it appears today is virtually identical to a fossil of a specimen that lived some 200 million years ago just as dinosaurs rose to prominence.