Sentences with phrase «by an organism called»

A bacterial infection caused by an organism called spirochete.Syphilis belongs to a group of infections which are transmitted sexually.

In mice and rats, respiratory problems are often caused by an organism called mycoplasma, which can cause many respiratory signs and often leads to chronic respiratory disease.

This canine tick disease is not spread by bacteria, but by an organism called a protozoa.

This isn't a form of bacteria, but caused by an organism called a protozoa or parasite.

Not exact matches

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

All of these — animals, cells and atoms — are thus called «organisms» by Whitehead, one of Hartshorne's main sources for his psychicalism.

The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey it.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

It is unfortunately true that, contrary to his intention, that newspaper article has been understood by many in the US to be directly supportive of the so - called «intelligent design» hypothesis, which invokes divine design through the detection of instances of supposedly irreducible complexity (i.e. un-evolvable organisms).

There are three zones or dimensions of awareness: inner awareness of one's organism and its needs; awareness of the outer world as experienced by the senses; and a middle zone (Perls called this the DMZ) composed of our fantasies, imagination, memories, beliefs, interpretations, prejudices, and our total social programming by our culture.

Looking at our universe, we observe the stable laws of physics, the scientifically measurable and predictable qualities of matter, the ordered relationships of organisms to their environment and the process we call «evolution» by which living things develop.

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.

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.

The phrase «specious present» was William James»; its importance in the Whiteheadian view is that it marks the general character of primitive sense - awareness, and can be the character of the sense - awareness of what Whitehead calls «low grade organisms,» affected by their immediate past and directed to how they are going to act in the immediate future.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

Infections in pregnancy can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or other organisms called protozoa.

In phylogenetics, organisms are grouped by ancestry; a reptile in this system includes any animal descended from the original group called reptiles.

Such organisms cram meters of genetic material into the tiny nuclei by wrapping strands of DNA around clusters of proteins called histones (SN: 1/10/15, p. 32).

They focused on a mustard green called Arabidopsis, the reference organism used by plant biologists in their research.

Layers in the core were dated by analyzing the carbon 14 content of shells left by microscopic organisms called foraminafera.

Bay muds often have a high organic content, consisting of decayed organisms at lower depths, but may also contain living creatures when they occur at the upper soil layer and become exposed by low tides; then, they are called mudflats, an important ecological zone for shorebirds and many types of marine organisms.

In haplodiploid organisms sex is typically determined by a mechanism called «complementary sex determination.»

At both poles, organisms in decline are being replaced by plankton called flagellates.

By now, European astronauts had hoped to be established in their space laboratory called Columbus, where they would be melting and solidifying conductive metals, studying microgravity effects on single - celled organisms, investigating human balance disorders, and carrying out dozens of other experiments.

Kuntz entered the public debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in France after observing what he calls a growing tendency by French public authorities to distort scientific findings for political ends and after reading an alarmist article in his local newspaper, he says.

They make a toxin called domoic acid, which is consumed by other plankton that in turn become food for fish and other organisms.

The evolution of a distinct germ line that is protected by the diverse somatic functions of the organism is thought to confer an evolutionary advantage — what we call a fitness benefit — to multicellular organisms, whether plant or animal or slime mold.

Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, called for more effective communication and public engagement by scientists in explaining their work, both to policy makers and to the general public, across a range of topics — climate change, evolution, stem cells, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

The phrase is a fine combination of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a biological organism, «man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities of what we often call «nature».

All organisms, from mammals to fungi, have daily cycles controlled by a tightly regulated internal clock, called the circadian clock.

Jean - Claude Juncker, the new commission's president - elect, must decide whether to keep the post; nine nongovernmental organizations have called on him to scrap it because they are angered by the support of the current science adviser, Anne Glover, for genetically modified organisms.

Though the new mechanism was discovered in a fungus called Mucor circinelloides, it is likely to be employed by other fungi as well as bacteria, viruses and other organisms to withstand treatment with various drugs.

This process of shifting an internal clock to match external cues is called entrainment, and no other organism (that we know of) is able to shift its clock by more than an hour or two.

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.

Cells from many organisms recycle their parts by breaking down sugars, fats, and proteins in a process called autophagy («self eating»).

As long as they understand that there is pressure, environmental pressure, on organisms to adapt — antibiotic resistance by bacteria represent a form of evolution — but let's not call it evolution because that buzz word turns people off.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

Many whales feed by filling their mouths with water, then straining organisms out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen.

The laboratories of CSHL Professors Gregory J. Hannon and Leemor Joshua - Tor, both Investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joined forces to scrutinize the process by which a class of genome defenders called PIWI - interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are generated in cells of the germline — eggs and sperm that bear an organism's genetic inheritance and transmit this information to offspring.

In certain organisms, ammonia is produced from atmospheric nitrogen (N2) by enzymes called nitrogenases.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one - celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.

Xantham Gum: Made by a micro organism called Xanthomonas Camestris, xantham gum works best in baked goods and yeasted breads.

The organisms that do the fermenting produce alcohol, lactic acid and acetic acid, which can be called «bio-preservatives», as they not only prevent spoilage but also enhance nutrition by breaking foods down into more easily digestible forms and adding certain B vitamins to the food (1).

Science also is showing that leptin controls the healthy phenotype imparted by calorie restriction in so - called higher organisms that use fat as a primary fuel.

Complex sugars consumed by the organism can be broken down into simpler sugar molecules called monosaccharides such as glucose.

[12] An organic chemical compound (or related set of compounds) is called a vitamin when it can not be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet.

By the way, I never called you a single celled organism.

These screen hogs are called MUTO's (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) and are quite substantial... crushing skyscrapers by landing.