Sentences with phrase «cellular organisms»

Those functions were thought to be the exclusive province of more complex cellular organisms.

After all, if the nanoparticles can boost photosynthesis in those simple cellular organisms, then fuel, food and other products derived from algae might become more viable.

Mitochondria play an important role in the overall metabolism of cellular organisms, serving as generators that produce energy to power other functions of the cell through respiration.

Synthetic biology — the emerging science of creating genomes, cellular components and even whole cellular organisms from scratch — confronts regulators with some tricky problems.

Actually, science has been able to show how the very first proteins and cellular organism did evolve from non-life.

Stedman argues that since there are more viruses on Earth — 10 to 100 times more than any other cellular organism — the same could be true on other planets and moons.

As the research team noted in its report in the journal Science, the enormous complexity of the Mimivirus's genetic complement «challenges the established frontier between viruses and parasitic cellular organisms.»

Sequence analysis of the virus revealed numerous genes previously thought to exist only in cellular organisms.

The only seemingly safe assumptions were that viruses will always be smaller in both physical size and genomic content than the simplest bacteria and that viruses had to have evolved after those same cellular organisms, on which their parasitism depends.

Given its extreme minuteness and the fact that it must get many essentials from both its host and resident microbes, some suggest that Tremblaya blurs the boundaries between cellular organisms and organelles, specialized structures within cells such as the energy - producing mitochondria.

We even use these principles when it comes to doing research that involves manipulating cellular organisms to evolve into what we want them to (since generations can pass in days instead of 100s of years for cellular organisms).

Gradually organic chemicals were synthesized and eventually self - replicating complex molecules evolved, enabling the evolution of living cells, leading to multi - cellular organisms, plants and animals.

What's more, only a very small percentage (6 %) of proteins encoded by Pandoravirus salinus are similar to those already identified in other viruses or cellular organisms.

With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.

Virus don't consist of cells, however, and operate differently from cellular organisms.

Coordinated in their minimalist movements like a weary military troupe or a cellular organism, the group slowly and resolutely progresses forward.

Hockaday treats plastic clamshell containers with the same detail as protozoa, allowing the spaces within and between shapes to take on the characteristics of a cellular organism.