Sentences with phrase «by phylum»

Chris McGowan takes his readers on fascinating tours of the animal world, organised not by phylum or location but by biophysical concepts such as energy economy, scales of size and life cycles, and adaptations to the elements of earth, air, fire (or temperature to be more precise) and water.

Not exact matches

Time manifested as life multiplies itself in countless individuals, species, genera, phyla, etc., in order to prolong itself, for it can maintain itself only by differentiating itself.

The convergence of the phyla both ensues from, and of itself leads to, the coming together of individuals within the peculiarly «attaching» atmosphere created by the phenomenon of Reflexion.

In this new form, and having lost nothing of its physical reality (indeed, as much superior to its first state as the Noosphere is superior to the simple, isolated phylum) it acquires, by becoming exterior to the individual, an incomparable substance and capacity.

In the meantime, the presence of the spirit of Christ and the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard) in this history make history, as such, always influenced by the partial realization of atonement, and the vision of fully realized divine - human unanimity which history approaches as a limit.

For if by its structure Mankind does not dissipate itself but concentrates upon itself; in other words, if, alone among all the living forms known to us, our zoological phylum is laboriously moving towards a critical point of speciation, then are not all hopes permitted to us in the matter of survival and irreversibility?

The new study, a collaborative effort by groups led by Professor Gert Wörheide (Chair of Paleontology and Geobiology at LMU) and Dr. Davide Pisani (Bristol University, UK) reaffirms the traditional view that the sponges were the first phylum to diverge from the common ancestor of metazoans.

But when the team broadened the data search to include all fungi, they found indications that genes were being expressed differently — unexpectedly, by a fungus that appeared to belong to the Basidiomycota, a completely different phylum than the known fungal partner.

Chlamydomonas nivalis, the «watermelon snow» described by Lisa Grossman in her article on extreme life (14 June, p 13), is not a type of red algae but a green alga in the Chlorophyta phylum.

Like all mammal poop, the samples were dominated by bacteria of two phyla: Firmicutes, thought to play a role in the absorption of dietary fats, and Bacteroidetes, associated with high - fiber diets.

In fact, our present understanding of morphogenesis indicates that new phyla were not made by new genes but largely emerged through the rewiring of the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) of already existing genes (1).

Researchers discovered the new phylum of microbes, dubbed Lokiarchaeota, by screening DNA from sediment (SN: 5/30/15, p. 6).

In agreement with Fouts et al. (2012), the data presented here concurs that the different sexes have significantly different genera of bacteria present in their urine, different numbers of genera and that sequences in the main belong to the phylum Firmicutes for both male and female samples, as in the study by Siddiqui et al. (2011).

(By comparison, all multicellular animals in the world comprise only a few dozen phyla.)

arthropod Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids and myriapods, that are characterized by an exoskeleton made of a hard material called chitin and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are attached in pairs.

It is often hypothsized that animal evolution established essentially all phylum - level body plans by the early Cambrian.

Overexpression of human amyloid - β protein precursor (AβPP) within the gut was assessed by qPCR and IHC; fecal microbiome analysis was conducted by 16SrRNA quantitation of selected phyla and species.

Interesting Algae Micro-organisms on Electron Microscopy by Jeffrey Dach MD Coccolithophore (phylum Plankton) This is Plankton, a one - celled plant (using photosynthesis) living in the ocean.

Vocabulary Reviewed: Classification Kingdom Phylum Invertebrate Vertebrate Class Adaptations Food web Food chain Predator Prey Carnivore Herbivore Producers Consumers Internal Anatomy terms - gonads, brain, heart, ink sac, gills, pen, eye lens External Anatomy terms - mantle, eye, siphon, arms, tentacles, sucker cups, chromatophores, fin, mouth, beak Includes step by step directions as well as photos for the squid dissection and squid races.

Michael Max Asher (July 15, 1943 — October 15, 2012) was a conceptual artist, described by The New York Times as «among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique, an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art.»

Families tend to persist for tens of millions of years and by the time you get to Phyla most of the present phyla have been around since the Cambrian exploPhyla most of the present phyla have been around since the Cambrian explophyla have been around since the Cambrian explosion.