Sentences with phrase «complex body plans»

Some of the genes control receptors called integrins, which help cells attach to and communicate with one another, allowing formation of specialized organs and complex body plans.

The Ediacaran gave way to the Cambrian explosion, 542 million years ago: the rapid emergence of new species with complex body plans, hard parts for defense, and sophisticated eyes.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

Not exact matches

This evolutionary radiation revealed several new animal body plans, and changed life on Earth forever, as complex animals with specialized guts and behavioural features emerged.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

New body plans and ways of living emerged in concert with a new kind of community, one characterized by complex food chains

Development of the animal body plan was (and is) controlled by large and complex gene regulatory networks.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

Often tied to districts» annual budget cycles, effective strategic planning and school improvement focus on the staff and skills, materials and resources, instruction and intervention, and formative and summative evaluations needed to educate a diverse and often complex student body.

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Writing for The Conversation, Grattan Institute health program director Stephen Duckett outlined the need to simplify Australia's highly complex hospital funding arrangements (which he described as resembling spaghetti in the National Health Funding Body's flow diagram), and said there were many risks inherent with the taskforce plan.