Sentences with phrase «between organisms did»

In that early scaffolding, evolutionary relationships between organisms didn't matter.

Not exact matches

The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

But the discovery of genetic identities between human cells and those of most other organisms does not negate the distinctiveness of human beings.

«The aim of this book is to argue that the mind - body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation between mind brain and behaviour in living organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and it history.»

They really don't see the difference between manufactured objects and living, breeding organisms.

This does not mean that something very like self - conscious human purpose is to be found in amoebae, but it does mean that there must be some continuity between an amoeba's response to its environment and the response of higher organisms (including human ones) to theirs.

Unlike sun coffee systems, which do not provide pollinators with resources throughout the year (Jha and Vandermeer 2010) and are less permeable to dispersing organisms (e.g., Muriel and Kattan 2009), shade coffee farms can promote pollinator populations and serve as corridors for organisms moving regionally between forest fragments.

Given the similarities between a pig's organism and the human organism, we may draw the following conclusion when applying our results to the human body: an egg or two more once in a while can do no harm.»

The detectability of spider DNA did not differ between assays and spider and prey DNA remained detectable at least 88 days after living organisms were no longer present on the web.

He divided the required tasks of fuel production between two specialist organisms, allowing him to do all the work in a single bioreactor.

«They behave much like enzymes do in living organisms, breaking down the bonds between carbon and oxygen atoms.

However, where the traditional model made a strict separation between those that photosynthesize and those that don't, the mixotrophic model blurred those lines, with some smaller organisms consuming prey and some larger ones being able to photosynthesize.

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

Fraden's work sought to answer key questions, such as why is there such a void between the animate and inanimate that we never confuse the two, and if engineers could create materials with similar attributes to living organisms, but constructed from inanimate objects, can we do so using only chemicals and eschew use of motors and electronics?

Researchers measured tracheal tube sizes in tobacco hornworm caterpillars (Manduca sexta) throughout their development and found that, while the rest of the organisms» bodies grow between molts, the tubes do not.

Nor did the situation improve when both types of microbes were put together into this solution of their favorite foods, suggesting the organisms lacked the ability to directly transfer electrons between them.

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

This name is convenient for talking about organisms in the water that make their own food, but does not reflect any relationship between the cyanobacteria and other organisms called algae.

Now researchers have found the act of sex between such genetically identical organisms can itself be mutagenic, meaning it can create genetic changes and diversity where it did not previously exist.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

So while it's true that organisms living deep in the Earth are not exposed to the high - energy radiation found when you travel between planets or more hypothetically between stars, the systems that cells have evolved to repair damage done by reactive oxygen species will be useful whether they arise from rocks or from cosmic rays.

She explores the relationship between internal and external, how individuals are linked to the tissues and blood vessels of other organisms, and in so doing, she suggests relationships with the universe at large.

When Jaq Chartier uses inks, dyes, and chemicals, she seeks correspondences between doing science, the process of art, and the unfolding of an organism.

While Iglesias clearly does not indulge in Baroque spectacle and has taken the fountain tradition far beyond mere lavish ornament, her uses of water seem to me to resonate with the deeper implications of Descartes» analogy, for the regular pulse of Tres Aguas evokes the mind - body symbiosis of every living organism as well as the reciprocity that needs to exist between nature and society, individual and community.

There are several feedbacks between decreasing the rate of calcification that organisms do in the ocean, and the carbon cycle.