Sentences with phrase «by a living organism in»

The carbon captured by living organisms in oceans is stored in the form of biomass and sediments from mangroves, salt marshes, sea grasses and potentially algae.»

To be called «biodegradable» a material needs to be broken down by living organisms in specific conditions into its constituent parts: carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds and biomass.

Not exact matches

If it increases the survival probability of the organism (measured by, well more of them live) then it stays in future generations.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

DNA / RNA and proteins are by far the most important components of a living organism, carrying out virtually every function in a cell.

And so it follows that the opus humanum laboriously and gradually achieved within us by the growth of knowledge and in the face of evil, is something quite other than an act of higher morality: it is a living organism.

Until the student of origins can produce repeated examples of spontaneous generation (living organisms created entirely from non-living matter) followed by an evolutionary process, his speculations remain in the realm of philosophy and outside the strict standards of modern science.

For example, Michael Polanyi has written that living organisms contain and transmit information, which in principle can not be explained solely by reference to the laws that govern its physical and chemical embodiment.

A decentered Whiteheadian vision suggests a world where larger and larger patterns of meaning and order emerge gradually, fitfully, and unevenly from the churning multiplicity of value centers constituted by the sophisticated occasions regnant in living organisms.

(4) Humans are neither soul alone, nor mind alone, nor body alone, but organisms compounded of soul - mind - body; in Christian language, «We are made of the dust of the earth and that dust has had breathed into it the life which is given by God.»

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

In concrete perception, the material movement ordinarily continued as real movement by nonvital matter is continued as virtual or nascent action by living organisms.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

God has no use for the material, and emotions are meant to benefit the life of the physical organism, either by motivating it to act to benefit itself, or to manipulate the other party in the relationship.

In the living organism he saw the key to a genetic structuralism; what the genetic theory of cognition wants to analyze by the term psychogenesis is specifically the emergence of the so - called knowing, intelligent subject from the preliminary stages of biological organization; that is, the step - by - step ensuing construction of symbolic conceptual structures and thinking structures, following from the sensori - motor performance basis of cognition.

RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

As a body is an organism made up of many members, and it is held together by one soul, so, in my opinion, the whole world is a kind of huge and immense living creature which is united by one soul, namely the power and reason of God.

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

Here the proportionality becomes part of a non-reductionist biology sustaining the thesis that life proceeds by creating organisms whose temporalities increasingly broadened over those of matter — whose fundamental rhythms are both greater in breadth than those of matter, and richer in content.

Yet it is clear that it is in this direction — towards a more temporalist biology, utilizing a mathematics more suited to the «sinuousities» (CE 212 - 213) of life — he believed biology could most profitably proceed.20 An adequate answer is suggested, however, by Bergson's statement in Mailer and Memory (quoted above) that levels of consciousness (hence breadths of duration) in each organism are precisely commensurate with the organism's capacity for movement — more precisely, for its capacity to employ a wide behavioral repertoire, coupled with necessity of having to choose between specific acts.

NOW... LIFE... «I WAS dead - but I am alive...» God gave earthly things as a reminder of spiritual ones (new birth, promised land etc.) Let's see the function of blood in the living organism: the major one is TRANSPORTING of a) oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and rest of the body, b) nutrients to the body, c) Waste products to be detoxified or removed by the liver and kidneys... See the picture?

Proponents of the probability argument observe structures that occur in living organisms and consider whether such structures could reasonably be constructed by random interactions.

In addition to choosing where they live, organisms make their own climate (bees), increase their food supply by grazing and fertilizing the soil and so on (Levins & Lewontin 1985).

It was not until the invention of the microscope, followed by the pioneering scientific work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1860's, that yeast was identified as a living organism and the agent responsible for alcoholic fermentation and dough leavening.

I look at these modalities like the systems of the body, we are not just informed by organs or bones, we are breathing living organisms working together in harmonic resonance.

That could make it harder for us to detect whether certain molecules in the water are hints of the presence of living organisms, or just the by - products of geological processes.

Led by the Project 2061 development team, the workshop will introduce participants to a pair of curriculum units designed to give students a coherent understanding of matter and energy and how they are conserved and transformed for growth and repair in living organisms.

But, if organisms could somehow survive exposure to those conditions, it might mean that life on Earth could have come from elsewhere in the solar system, perhaps ferried by a meteorite.

In 1903 French scientist René Blondlot added to the frenzy with his announcement of N - rays, a strangely democratic form of radiation emitted by wood, iron, living organisms — just about anything at all.

Some supporters of alternative life suggest looking for signs of metabolic activity in varnishes, which could be detected by watching for the flow of radioactive tracers through any hidden organisms.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

The team analysed the chemical composition of tiny shells built by organisms (foraminifera) that had lived in the water column and at the sea bottom before their shells became embedded in the seafloor sediments.

By tracking activity in almost all the genes of a free - living archaeon — which, like a bacterium, is a prokaryote — Bonneau was recently able to piece together how the genes affected one another's expression, enabling him to map the organism's «control circuit» as if it were a machine.

By conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soiBy conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soiby which organisms live in the soil.

Antimicrobial peptides, produced by all living organisms as part of their immune defenses, kill microbes in several different ways.

«Many approaches in synthetic carbon dioxide fixation have been driven by top - down «trial - and - error» approaches through direct implementation of new routes into the complex background of living organisms,» Erb said.

In nature this is determined by embryo development, during the life of each organism, and by evolution through natural selection, for each population and species.

This week in Science, researchers led by genome sequencing pioneer Craig Venter report engineering a bacterium to have the smallest genome — and the fewest genes — of any freely living organism, smaller than the flower's by a factor of 282,000.

Metabolites are the by - products of life - supporting chemical reactions taking place continuously in living organisms.

► Researchers who have «made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it in the United States,... need to answer a critical question: Which U.S. agency has to sign off on its safety?»

In particular, he studies the emergence of the genetic code, the biochemical interface by which organisms translate genetic instructions into living bodies.

They are the first known organisms to derive energy by photosynthesis while living in an environment naturally devoid of sunlight.

They are all caused by microbes — minute organisms which have fascinated us ever since the Dutch merchant Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered the invisible but teeming world of «small life» in the 17th century.

By mimicking the molecular self - assembly process that occurs in living organisms, chemists can learn new methods of chemical synthesis of nano / micro-structures.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has a life expectancy of approx. 8 weeks and belongs to the model organisms studied by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in their quest to understand aging in living beings.