Sentences with phrase «certain other organisms»

Plants, some bacteria, and certain other organisms collect energy from sunlight through a process called photosynthesis.

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Along with the importance of these relationships are several other key features: the nested hierarchies of organisation at hundreds - if not thousands - of different levels on this planet... the same laws of physics and chemistry function throughout the universe, and everything is related to everything else... as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that larger system.

If that doesn't help: when did certain single cell organisms decide to be plants and others decide to be vegetation eating animals?

Typically genetic predispositions to certain disorders, and other negative influences cause declining health of a living organism's tissues and function.

Pesticides, although useful tools to control pests, may pose certain risks to the applicator and other non-target, often beneficial, organisms.

A genetic bottleneck occurs when the survival of an organism with certain traits or mutations is favored over others in the same population, reducing the overall genetic diversity in subsequent generations.

Most organisms» colors are produced by pigments that absorb certain wavelengths of light, but not others, to create a color.

In agriculture, for example, researchers transfer genes from other organisms into crops to get certain characteristics.

In many studies, caloric restriction has been shown to extend life span and improve health in certain organisms, but other research has produced conflicting results (SN: 1/24/15, p. 6, SN Online: 7/30/14), and scientists still aren't sure how it works.

In a study to be published in the June 14 issue of Science, Storz and colleagues at UNL and Aarhus University in Denmark report that an individual mutation can be beneficial if it occurs in combination with certain other mutations, but the same mutation can detrimental to the organism if it occurs in other combinations.

In just the past few years, strains of Escherichia coli have emerged that can thrive in salted foods like sausage or acidic foods such as apple juice, and certain strains of Salmonella have developed the ability to resist food - processing temperatures that kill other organisms.

These evolutionary changes, which are known as «sequential» or «cascading» events, may provide additional information to help biologists explain why certain organisms like plants and insects are more diverse and species - rich than other groups are.

But organisms are evolving continuously, with certain phenotypes becoming dominant as environmental and other conditions favor them.

Organisms are adapted to live in certain environments and not others.

The original stuff is botanical and then in the making of The Origin, you know, [the] making of his theory, plants are interwoven with other organisms, obviously something — you know, he would take as examples where they are important, but there are certain botanical issues that are of key importance and one of them has to do with reproduction.

Organic growers have used Bt proteins in sprays for decades because they kill certain pests but are not toxic to people and most other organisms.

A. avenae and other anhydrobiotic plants and animals — organisms that can live without water — produce large amounts (up to 20 % of a cell's mass) of certain sugar molecules that harden into a semisolid state.

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

Once an organism can draw on two full sets of essentially the same genes, it can begin «to de-evolve certain of the genes in one set and adapt them to some other function — importantly, without compromising the gene's original function,» she says.

These work best to pulling bacteria and other harmful organisms out of you gums — your mouth, and to a certain extent your throat.

«Manufacturers are also advised to conduct microbiology testing to demonstrate that the tampon does not enhance the growth of certain bacteria or other organisms, including the bacteria known to cause toxic shock syndrome, and demonstrate that tampons meet their claimed absorbency level.»

For example, some dogs develop itch because of parasitic organisms on them while others might be just allergic to certain plants.

The skeletons of the dead corals, the living corals, the shells of other organisms, and the lime secreted by certain encrusting and creeping algae accumulate and form the physical structure of the reef.

Foreign Exchange came into fruition (literally) from an interest in democratic networks and systems with an absent central point of power: The mycelium material is similar to certain threads of the Internet, and other organisms» webbed biospheres, such as honeybee hives and ant colonies.

Re posts 8 & 3: I think only photosynthetic organisms gain a direct benefit from higher CO2, and fishes are certain not to benefit (although some fish species may be less sensitive to HCO3 than others and receive an indirect benefit via ecological interactions).