Sentences with phrase «determining animal form»
Researchers have bred butterflies to have disproportionate wing - to - body ratios, suggesting that natural selection plays a larger than expected role in determining animal form.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
The MGH team set out to determine whether administration of a transferase, an enzyme that moves chemical groups like glycans from one molecule to another, could convert inflammatory antibodies to anti-inflammatory forms within a living animal.
In animal studies on resveratrol itself (the purified nutrient given in intravenous form, not the food form), this phytonutrient has been determined to improve blood flow in the brain by as much as 30 %, thus greatly reducing the risk of stroke, according to the results of a laboratory animal study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The application process consists of this form and consultation with a Paws Place representative, and is designed to help us determine if the foster is in the animal's best interest, and to assist you in finding an animal most compatible with your lifestyle.
This bill in its original form would allow a sheriff, local law enforcement officer or animal control officer to determine whether a dog is dangerous and requires the court to take that determination into account when making its decision.
Before we can determine whether or not we can help this companion animal, we need a complete written estimate from your office as well as a completed Veterinarian's DX / Treatment Form.
This form and consultation with a Young At Heart representative is designed to help us determine if the adoption is in the animal's best interest, and to assist you in finding the animal most compatible with your lifestyle.
It is also useful for assessing fetal health and monitoring pregnancy in breeding animals, and it can help us diagnose and stage (determine the severity of) some forms of cancer.
This form and a consultation with an AWF adoption counselor is designed to help us determine if the adoption is in the animal's best interest and to assist you in finding the dog / puppy most compatible with your lifestyle.
Whether in the acrylic flower forms he has burgeoning off small panels or the vast, almost drapery - like gouaches on paper he has bedecked with yet more stylized floral, and animal, forms, Zakanitch celebrates nature - plants, birds, other wild beings - in a way that determines a fine line between the naïve and the elegant, the dopey and the exquisitely limned, the hermetic and the expository.
Here's Merriam Webster's version: Main Entry: carbon dioxide Function: noun: a heavy colorless gas CO 2 that does not support combustion, dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, is formed especially in animal respiration and in the decay or combustion of animal and vegetable matter, is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis, and is used in the carbonation of beverages I know you'll all correct me if i'm wrong in stating if CO2 has no scientific facts supporting global warming based upon a factor of greenhouse gases (as opposed to solar radiation in another post, which would be defined by variations in earth, space, or similar factors), then where does science determine that CO2 «disolves in water to form carbonic acid» and is «absorbed from the air by plants in photosythesis»?
However, at the moment, uncertainty about how factors such as low wind speeds, high levels of turbulence, noise, visual impact, and animal strikes influence the performance of micro wind turbines make it hard to determine their true potential in this form.