Sentences with phrase «certain defense mechanisms»

According to Vaillant, these levels correlate roughly with stages of human psychological development, and certain defense mechanisms are more likely to develop at certain ages in this conception.

If our bodies hadn't developed certain defense mechanisms, then we'd all be dead.

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Their body uses a defense mechanism to not eat certain things because they can choke on them.

TAL effectors are produced in nature by certain bacteria that infect plants and are able to bind to specific sequences in the plant DNA, thereby neutralizing the plant's defense mechanisms.

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

They start by using a technique known as RNA interference (RNAi), which is a natural defense mechanism cells employ to destroy certain types of viruses.

Over hundreds of millions of years, certain plants have developed highly effective defense mechanisms against potentially harmful insects.

Such behavior is a human defense mechanism that paradoxically will lead us to certain extinction if this behavior is not overcome.