Sentences with phrase «celled organisms on»

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Scientists can then grow the muscle cells and develop them in a lab the same way the cells would grow on a living organism.

One thing that many Christians get hung up on is the idea of evolution as a belief that we all developed from single celled organisms and that our genetic map split from apes and etc..

If scienties found a single organism or cell on another planet they would proclaim WE HAVE FOUND LIFE.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

What is in contention is the «how» exactly we came from single - celled organisms, and there are many different theories on how that happened, but not IF that happened?

The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.

Molecules form cells, cells form organisms, and so on in turn.

Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

In various experiments with various conditions, scientists have been able to create a wide range of cell - like structures of increasing complexity on the road toward a simple self - replicating organism.

When you say miracle of life, do you mean conception of a child in todays world or are you talking about single - celled organisms at the advent of life on earth?

Unlike most other philosophers of science, he does not immediately cast scorn on the likes of William Dembski and Michael Behe, who have focused on the apparent design of cells and organisms.

Topher, all life on Earth evolved from single cell organisms you are just going to have to learn to deal with reality.

«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.

We see Nature combining molecules and cells in the living body to construct separate individuals, and the same Nature, stubbornly pursuing the same course but on a higher level, combining individuals in social organisms to obtain a higher order of psychic results.

It is no longer simply a matter of cells organized by the hazards of natural selection, but of completed zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.

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.

And let's remember that evolution, while it's a theory, is a theory about the beginning and the transformation of life based on things we have observed, namely that cells change and mutate and that those mutations can produce cells that are unique and new, and that it would follow that it's possible for molecules to form into single - celled organisms which mutate and combine into multi-cellular organisms which mutate, adapt, and grow over time into new forms of life.

By definition, nutritional yeast is deactivated yeast derived from a single - celled organism, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, which is grown under carefully controlled conditions on sugar cane or beet molasses for several days, harvested, washed, and dried with heat to kill (i.e. «deactivate» it).

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

Honing in on when life on Earth evolved from single - celled to multicellular organisms is no easy task.

A microbial fuel cell, for example, could generate electricity by capturing electrons from the bacteria on electrodes instead of the rocks that these organisms evolved to breathe.

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

Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour in social organisms.

From single - celled organisms to human populations, viruses affect all life on earth, often determining what will survive.

Another is how cells in a single organism take on different functions despite having identical genomes.

The Cologne molecular biologist is an expert on root - colonizing fungi and the plant immune system, the Würzburg chemist is a specialist for sugar molecules and their functions in cells and organisms.

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

The film depicts several sperm attempting to fertilize the egg, «zooms in» on one sperm's tail to show how the dynein proteins move in sync to cause the tail to bend and flex, and ends with the sperm's successful journey into the egg and the initiation of cell division that will ultimately create a new organism.

There's no way around that, whether their human - looking Star Trek creatures with antenna on their foreheads, or they're nothing more than single - cell organisms with collective mega-intelligence.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

But even though IDPs in multicelled organisms make up 30 to 50 percent — depending on the organism — of the proteins that genes are able to make, it turns out that at any given moment, they exist in the cell in only tiny amounts.

These findings of the MLU research group on Developmental Genetics suggest that the same genetic program may operate in germ cells of other, more complex organisms as well — albeit in a timely less compressed form.

Before now, a lot of this epigenetic research had been done in yeast — single cell organisms that also use enzymes to lay chemical tags on histone proteins.

At its most basic, synthetic biology is about making DNA from scratch, on scales from individual molecules to cells, tissues and even entire organisms.

Simpler kinds of living organisms came first, and it took hundreds of millions of years of evolution on Earth to progress from single - celled life forms to complex organisms like ourselves.

To do this without a brain or nervous system, says Ken Showalter, a chemist at West Virginia University, the organism relies on proteins and nutrients that «swish back and forth» through the cell to communicate the location of the food and allow the organism to change shape.

Because these organisms are excellent models for understanding stem cell biology, researchers were able to shed light on the earliest stages of follicle cell differentiation, a previously poorly understood area of developmental biology.

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.

That's true in politics, on the playground — and for evolution, because switching from a «me» to «we» mindset helped cells evolve to more complex organisms.

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.

Most biologists typically recognize three official branches of life: the eukaryotes, which are organisms whose cells have a nucleus; bacteria, the single - celled organisms that may or may not possess a nucleus; and archaea, an ancient line of microbes without nuclei that may make up as much as a third of all life on Earth (See «Will the Methane Bubble Burst?»

In March the Field Museum opened a controversial new exhibit called the Evolving Planet, which takes visitors on a 4 - billion - year journey that shows life on Earth developing from single - celled organisms to dinosaurs and finally to humans.

Understanding this process - which is particularly important when cells are first taking on specialized identities such as nerve cells, muscle, skin, and so on - helps explain how complex organisms can arise from a finite number of genes.

Most sea sponges feed on single - celled organisms, which they filter from water, but some are more voracious, catching small crustaceans.

At that time, little was known about the molecular biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of cells and organisms.

In addition, they also counted the numbers of various types of single - celled organisms called testate amoebae, whose population changes depending on the amount of water in the bog, giving an indication of how wet or dry the climate was during different periods.

How does a single - celled organism, one of the simplest life forms on Earth, manage to satisfy its nutritional needs?

Why two types of single - celled organism that form the deepest branch on the tree of life — bacteria and archaea — have completely different cell membranes