Sentences with phrase «branches than a tree»

The trend of series with more branches than a tree in need of some serious maintenance has continued to the modern day, with franchises like Final Fantasy (currently on its fourteenth main instalment) and Call of Duty (eight games in eight years) facing solid opposition from the community yet still continuing to dominate when sales figures come around.

Not exact matches

Instead of being at the top where it's normally found, it's included in the branches of a tree that's built into the background design (or some other creative way to include a menu other than the standard way).

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Mimivirus is so much more genetically complex than all previously known viruses, not to mention a number of bacteria, that it throwing our whole conception of the branching «tree of life» into disarray.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

(As an aside, the resident buck is now able to reach the higher branches and has obviously enjoyed the Meyer lemon tree more than I have this season.

Rather than forming compact plants, they branch out widely, intertwining into the nurse trees and giving the pod collector a hard time.

The service, branching off — if you will — from its famed family tree builder, claims five times more ethnic regions than the next leading test, and also bills itself as the largest DNA network in the world.

Be the first to catapult your monkeys onto the tree branches (trust me, it's harder than it looks) and you'll be declared the winner.

A man in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, clears destroyed tree branches in a neighborhood without grid electricity more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island.

«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.

That's because most flowers come directly out of the trunk, rather than sprouting from branches as in many other trees.

Eastern screech owls hunt almost exclusively at night, using a more passive approach than many other owls: they sit in the low branches of a tree waiting for prey to pass below and then pounce!

Take our ancestor Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), who stood less than four feet tall, swung from tree branches, and ran easily along the ground on two feet more than 3 million years ago.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

Rather than storing most of the extra carbon in long - lasting woody parts like trunks and branches, trees in an experimental forest in Tennessee instead make tiny roots that quickly degrade in the soil — sending the CO2 right back into the atmosphere.

«Trees that didn't have pests had more branch growth than trees with pests,» Meineke Trees that didn't have pests had more branch growth than trees with pests,» Meineke trees with pests,» Meineke says.

«And rather than fight about it, we made an evolutionary tree and looked at what percentage of branches was lost.»

Intriguingly, the team hints that A. sediba might even be more closely related to H. erectus than H. habilis is, thus potentially relegating H. habilis to a side branch of the family tree, rather than a coveted spot on the line leading to us.

(A) Cladogram of ExaML TENT avian species tree, annotated for nodes from Fig. 2 (letters), for branches with less than 100 % BS without and with (parentheses) third codon positions, for strong (> 75 % BS) intron gene tree incongruence and congruence, and for indel congruence on all branches (except the root).

An ExaML TENT tree that included the third codon position (TENT + c3) was identical in topology to the ExaML TENT without the third codon position and had increased support for six of the nine branches that had less than 100 % BS (fig.

However, the intron tree, and even more so the UCE tree, had lower resolution than the TENT (Fig. 5A), mostly on deep branches (Fig. 4, A and B), consistent with fewer data leading to lower resolution on deeper branches.

So while there are more microbes left to find, they may fill up known branches of the tree of life rather than starting new ones.

So although there are plenty more microbial species left to find, they may fill up known branches of the family tree rather than starting major new ones.

The most intriguing and novel finding was that some parts of the tree were more like a bush than a tree, with many branches originating at the same point.

It took more than two years to strip the stone from the whale skull, and when he did, «there before me was what looked like an entirely new branch on the evolutionary tree of whales.»

Botanists have been building a case for more than a decade that Amborella trichopoda is the only known survivor of a plant lineage that branches off at the very base of the genealogical tree of living flowering plants.

«Rather than growing a new branch on the [genetic] tree, you have two branches growing together,» he said.

Professor Steven Bova, based at the University of Tampere, Finland, and head of ICGC prostate cancer UK metastatic studies, said: «The diversity we've found suggests multiple biopsies might be needed to identify the «trunk» of the cancer's tree of mutations — we need treatments that target these core weaknesses to destroy all cancer cells in a clean sweep, rather than trimming the branches.

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

Finding a new species of platypus was a surprise: Previously, researchers thought that the creatures had a single branch on their family tree, with no more than one distinct species alive at any time.

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates — spiders, scorpions and their kin — branched off from the family tree of other arthropods — including insects, crustaceans and millipedes — more than half a billion years ago.

A Tel Aviv University researcher was part of the team that released findings Thursday showing that the human evolutionary tree has fewer branches than originally thought, based on a 1.8 - million - year - old skull found buried under a medieval Georgian village.

This gap in knowledge led to a debate over the shape of the mammalian evolutionary tree: Did haramiyids belong on the crown mammal branch, from which all modern mammals descend, suggesting that mammals began to diversify more than 210 million years ago in the Triassic?

The discovery of this fossil evidence, which consists of bones from the upper and lower jaws, suggests that our family tree has more branches than previously believed and is far from linear.

I was super lucky to find a tree branch that had the inside pretty chunked out so I did literally NOTHING to prep it other than let it dry indoors and check to make sure no bugs were living inside of it!

There's flood damage, sure, and I can tell you firsthand about wind damage, thanks to the huge tree branch that fell onto my wife's Mini Cooper — which is now, as our cheerful insurance agent suggested — «more Mini than ever, huh?»

There was a genuine family tree — branches wider than my arms — and artifacts like a chair that Myles Standish had sat in (and in which we were not to sit) and a bugle that had been played at President Wilson's inauguration.

The best description I've heard is that dividend investing is akin to picking the apples off of the tree (for income) rather than chopping off bits of the branches and hoping that they'll grow back.

That fruit — the dividends — is what I'll eventually live off of, choosing to pluck the fruit and leave the branches intact rather than cutting the branches, possibly slowly killing the tree.

Low hanging branches, mud, water, sharp changes in terrain, even a less than ideally placed tree all pose dangers for a blind four - legged companion.

The learning tree has even branched out to his two sons from a more than 40 - year marriage.

They're both perfectly viable interpretations of the genre, of course, but it's the Western approach that's been most popular in recent years, the freedom of its open worlds and branching dialogue trees proving a more accessible entry point into the genre than Japan's complex battles.

Like a hacker faced with multiple firewalls, making progress through the various branches of the skills tree requires more than just redeeming the points you've earned by growing followers.

Wood engravings differ from woodcuts in that they are created using the endgrain of the wood — a cross-section of a tree trunk or branch — rather than a plank.

The exhibition includes a ranting mop, a music box, a sculpture made of twisted plastic that rhythmically drums as it drops water into steel buckets, a whistling tree branch, an amalgamation of sensory organs made from bondo that rises more than 7 feet tall, and a drawing of a record that the artist produced by following the melody of a song with one hand and the rhythm with the other.

Other works on view in the exhibition include Lophophore (2006 - 7), a bondo sculpture rising more than 7 feet in the air, projecting sensory organs from the ends of its twisted arm, and Deposition (2007), a 15 - foot tree branch rigged with a slide whistle and a motor that drives a beaded string through a series of wooden wheels, producing loopy sounds which rise and fall.

In «Lightning Fields 182,» the visual trace of an electrical charge measuring more than 400,000 volts sweeps across the composition from bottom right to upper left, reading in turns like the textures of a human hand, the upward - reaching leaves of a fern and the stark branches of a tree.

Not sure if you're still as myopic as looking at a single branch, but if not, you're not much further than a single tree yet.

Because trees store more carbon in their trunks and branches than lianas, the carbon balance shifts as lianas dominate.