Sentences with phrase «branch on a tree»

This understanding offers insights into how cancers develop and also has implications for efforts to use DNA to date branches on the tree of life.

Not just a new branch on the tree, but a new tree itself.

I know this because she has a bad habit of jumping at the leaves and branches on the trees in the back yard.

«This is a major new division in the family tree of exoplanets, somewhat analogous to the discovery that mammals and lizards are separate branches on the tree of life,» Fulton said.

Scientists once thought that every type of organism occupied a distinct branch on the tree of life; new species evolved as their genomes slowly mutated or recombined through sex.

Mr Corbyn, who has been growing actual olive branches on a tree outside his office, said tonight: «As far as I am concerned, the slate will be wiped clean this weekend.»

«Global biodiversity catastrophes are not about death but about the pruning of evolutionary branches on the tree of life at a rate much higher than the sprouting of new shoots,» added co-author Ivo Duijnstee, an adjunct assistant professor of integrative biology.

Newly described little scaly bits could push back the fossil record of the moth - and - butterfly branch on the tree of life by some 70 million years.

Why two types of single - celled organism that form the deepest branch on the tree of life — bacteria and archaea — have completely different cell membranes

Mutations reveal surprising branches on the tree of life.

«The green plants are one of the most diverse branches on the tree of life, with a half million species that range in size from planktonic unicells to redwood trees.

Human beings and nonhuman apes inhabit neighboring branches on the tree of life, but there are differences.

You can think of humans as the very tip of just one branch on that tree called «hominid.»

Their work, which is reductive and sparse, represents a few branches on the tree of monochromatic painting after Ryman.

By surveying the ground below her, she deduced that the broken branches on a tree would cushion her fall better than jumping straight to the ground.

New branches on the tree of life had sprouted, setting the stage for an explosive diversification of forms that evolutionary biologists call an adaptive radiation.

It was not until the 1970s that scientists realized how different archaea were from bacteria, and they became a separate branch on the tree of life — the three branches being Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya (which includes all plants and animals).

«This is a major new division in the family tree of planets, analogous to discovering that mammals and lizards are distinct branches on the tree of life,» said professor of astronomy Andrew Howard, who works at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in a statement.

However, in cases where a low quality, fragmented genome is the only representative of a new branch on the tree of life, some data is better than no data,» he added.

Every species is a branch on the tree of life.

It's like a branch on a tree, there's still the rest of the tree, it's not like it just disappears.

How is is branch on the tree of evolution not get pruned?

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

«All 28 of the species we discovered during the project are members of two branches on the tree of life that are confined to the Philippines,» according to Eric Rickart, a team member who is based at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

The analysis also determined when the various strains — branches on this tree — appeared.

But a new study has identified the first eukaryote that has ditched its mitochondria, suggesting that our branch on the tree of life may be more versatile than researchers thought.

You can always find a branch on a tree or pole somewhere where you live.

However, you must be careful, because hitting a branch on the tree you're chopping or running out of time will cause a game over.

Then have them count the number of branches on the tree, and multiply the number of leaves on a branch by the number of branches on the tree.

The wind is bending the branches on the trees now and rain is starting to spot the windscreen.

This «Definitive Edition» comes with a handful of visual upgrades including TressFX technology for Lara's hair (like the original PC version), a remodelling for Lara's face and better leaves and branches on the trees.

Courtesy of the DOE Joint Genome Institute, here is a photo tour of what life is like for these scientists as they travel the world, a trip which resulted in 29 new branches on the tree of life.

Someone cut a branch on my tree without my permission.

You can also see a close up of the branches on our tree in this photo.