Sentences with phrase «by all living organisms on»

Ozone is made up of oxygen, but oxygen itself is generated by living organism on earth.

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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.

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.

«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.

May 28, 2013 — The widespread disappearance of stromatolites, the earliest visible manifestation of life on Earth, may have been driven by single - celled organisms called foraminifera.

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.

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»

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).

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.

However, «siRNAs on their own won't be effectively taken up by cells, particularly inside a living organism» said Dr. Sharp.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

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.

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing 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?»

Both organisms live on shed skin flakes, secretions, and bacteria provided by humans.

The term «organic» was originally confined to compounds produced by living organisms but now extended to include synthetic substances based on carbons and includes plastics.

Modern genetics has revealed that much of the diversity of life on Earth is found in single - celled organisms that reproduce asexually by splitting in two — thus flummoxing the definition.

Davies suggested that the «cosmic imperative,» the idea that, given favorable conditions, life would be bound to emerge, could be tested on Earth by looking for organisms unrelated to the currently known «tree of life.»

«This work answers a 50 - year mystery that has surrounded how sulfur — an element essential for life on Earth — was used and recycled by living organisms,» he said.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

The question of how species came to live where they live, which is studied by the field of biogeography, has long been debated among biologists, especially in cases where organisms that are related live on distant continents separated by vast oceans.

Van Dover is a specialist in the ecology of deep - sea ecosystems that are powered by chemistry rather than sunlight, and Eggleston studies the ecology of organisms that live on the seafloor.

There is something intriguing on almost every page of this well - illustrated and usefully timed study of probably the oldest ecosystems on the planet and the largest structures made by living organisms.

To him they resemble spore sacs formed by modern single - celled organisms called mesomycetozoeans, which sit between animals and fungi on the tree of life.

I'm clearly never going to be in Sweet and Filardi's league — Sweet manages the museum's climate - controlled mass grave of bird corpses; Filardi spends months on end living in a hut made of leaves on the Solomon Islands, extracting birds» DNA — but even I, an urban sophisticate with a belly full of latte, experience an ineffable, or barely effable, satisfaction at the sight of a twitching organism ringed by darkness.

Astronomers» current strategy for finding life on another planet is to detect the chemical composition of that planet's atmosphere, on the look - out for chemical imbalances which could be caused by living organisms.

The information gathered in databases will provide an essential guide to analyzing the extent of potentialcompensation during the life cycle of an organism by providing detailed information on the sites of expression of each gene.

First described in 1995 by Peter Funch and Reinhardt Kristensen, Symbion pandora's life - cycle provides insight on the incredible diversity and range in the ways organisms grow and reproduce.

The purpose of the cruise was to determine how marine organisms are acclimated to long - term ocean acidification and the resulting effect on biogeochemical cycles by studying organisms living in naturally CO2 - rich coral reefs.

By doing so, they hope to harness these communities of microorganisms that live in nearly every habitat and organism on earth and ultimately launch innovations in agriculture, energy, health, the environment, and more.

This is altered based on your diet and how many cycles of antibiotics you've done in your life — but by consuming yogurt and kefir packed full of probiotics and yeast, you can repopulate and diversify these helpful organisms.

Written by Deadpool and Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars — a small, single - celled organism.

Since fleas puncture the skin and draw blood, they can spread several different diseases and the bite marks can also become infected by bacteria and other micro organisms that are harmless when they live on the skin of the dog, but harmful when they get a chance to multiply inside an open wound.

They have this specific effect on behaviour which is to make the mouse less frightened of cats and the reason that the organism does that to the mouse is that it actually wants the mouse to be eaten by a cat, because the parasite then completes its life cycle and reproduces again.»

Sea - ice biome - The biome formed by all marine organisms living within or on the floating sea ice (frozen sea water) of the polar oceans.

We have an unknown climate sensitivity which has some how kept life on earth going for 2 billion years through extremes but is now going to roll over and die because of a little Co2 burp by an organism that has only been around 100,000 years.

by James Howard Kunstler A paradox of life in these times is the inverse relationship between technological wizardry and the satisfactions of being a live organism in a real place (i.e., on the planet Earth).

Oxygen is the most abundant, 21 % by volume, but without carbon dioxide, which is currently only about 0.04 percent (400ppm) by volume, both the oxygen itself, and most living organisms on earth could not exist at all.

If that will have any impact on sea life is doubtful as the main calcifying organisms evolved at much higher CO2 levels during the Cretaceous, witnessed by the white cliffs of Dover and many such places all over the world...

First proposed by James Lovelock, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living organisms interact with inorganic material on the planet in a manner that perpetuates or regulates the conditions for life on the planet.

The Gaia hypothesis proposes a fantastic means exists for keeping the earth stable enough for life, in part reliant on climate controls exerted by living organisms.

In 1996, Japanese scientists discovered A. marina living on the light left over by Chl a organisms and able to stretch into the far - red and near - infrared through the novel pigment Chl d instead of Chl a. Research at GISS has quantified the photon energy use efficiency of A. marina in comparison to Chl a organisms, and is now turned toward investigating its light regime in nature to ascertain its kinetics of light use and competitive ecological niche.