Sentences with phrase «building as a living organism»

In between are the professional middle classes — people like Laing who, in keeping with his career as a physiologist, looks upon the building as a living organism with its own pathologies.

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Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

Just as living organisms are a microbial environment, so are non-living structures such as buildings.

Venter's quest for synthetic life ultimately aims to create purpose - built organisms that can carry out specific roles, such as producing biofuels or even making hydrogen.

Engineers can design machines and buildings based on nonliving materials very well but are not as good at harnessing living organisms, due to their variability and complexity.

«I was initially surprised that biological neural networks utilized the same algorithms as their engineered counterparts, but, as we learned, the requirements for efficiency, robustness, and simplicity are common to both living organisms and the networks we have built.»

Many researchers worry that acidification will make life harder for some shell - building marine organisms such as clams, crabs, and shrimp; more - acidic water could corrode the creatures» shells, or make it harder to build them in the first place.

They have also found components used to make DNA, the molecule that carries the instructions for how to build and regulate a living organism, as well as other biologically important molecules like nitrogen heterocycles, sugar - related organic compounds, and compounds found in modern metabolism.

If you could take a cell from any organism — an alga, giant sequoia, condor, or your second cousin — and dive through its membrane into its clear liquid cytoplasm interior, you would find that all life as we know it shares the same building blocks.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life.

Concepts of natural selection apply to the primary building blocks of life, proteins, in the same manner as to organisms.

Building off this work, TIGR scientists are leveraging the information from the genome of this organism to study the ecology of microbes living in diverse hot springs, such as those in Yellowstone National Park.