Sentences with phrase «current day plants»

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A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Arc.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D - Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.

«The current president and owner of the company, Dale Patton, had been working in the plant during the day, whether it was on the dock, driving forklifts, shipping and receiving — anything they needed him to do,» Mullen says.

The ACCC said the extra two business days of consultation time were needed to allow the regulator to «carefully consider feedback» from current suppliers and customers to MG's Koroit milk plant.

The study of the current biodiversity of plants thus enables us to go back in time and gradually sketch the genetic portrait of the common ancestor of a large proportion of modern - day flowers.

While other beetles are known to pollinate plants, no current - day hidden - snout beetles have been seen visiting orchid plants, and no current - day toe - winged beetles have been seen with pollinaria.

I know, I know... You'll get heated debate about both of these topics... meat eating vs veganism, and raw foodism... however, it's historical FACT that our current species (and historical ancestors back over a million years ago) in almost every culture around the world, ate at least some % of plant - animal food combination and raw food / cooked food combination (even if it was at different times of the day, or even different times of the year).

Schmitt and Happer say our current CO2 levels are «low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history,» they pine for the days when «Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more,» and note that commercial greenhouse operators boost CO2 levels to» 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.»

For China, the nation must now add up to 1,000 GW of clean energy, about the same as all of its current - day coal plants.

Under RCP 2.6, no country will experience high losses or high gains in suitable plant growing days (i.e., reductions or gains greater than 30 % of the current suitable growing period, S3 Table).

Our calculations for the number of people vulnerable to projected changes in suitable plant growing days were based on current population numbers (as of 2012), but populations are projected to increase to 9,600 — 12,300 million people by 2100 [52].