Sentences with phrase «called flying colors»

Just the day before, I had purchased two of these plants called flying colors in coral at our local garden center.

Just the day before, I had purchased two of these plants called flying colors in coral at our local garden center.

Not exact matches

Collins and Anthony James of the University of California, Irvine, thought they might use the mutant bug to test a fancy trick: Take a bit of DNA, called a transposon, that likes to wiggle into genomes, and use it to insert a fruit fly gene for darker eye color into a mosquito's DNA.

In analyses of 23 videos of five different types of animals (mice, fruit flies, ants, zebrafish [shown], and small tropical fish called medaka), the software was able to identify and correctly track individuals (color - coded trails) within those groups 99.7 % of the time, researchers report online today in Nature Methods.

The stellar design team and animators find room for both the sun - kissed verisimilitude of a homey pueblo, and the razzle - dazzle of elaborately designed folk - art animals called alebrijas that become flying, hot - colored spirit creatures in the Land of the Dead.

Second Interviews You passed the first interview with flying colors, and you just got a call to schedule a second interview.