Sentences with phrase «different organisms»

Such matches in different organism groups are created by adapting to similar environmental requirements.

The interests of different organisms are often in conflict.

Scientists who compare genomes from different organisms find that many of the same DNA sequences are also found in human cells.

Yet in the ocean it's commonplace and seems to have evolved independently in many different organisms.

They also turn to molecular sequencing in which they reveal the hierarchy of relationships among different organisms by comparing their molecular details.

But if two entirely different organisms — a bacteria and a plant — could swap genes, then the potential for altering crops directly by gene transfer was vast.

There's all this genome sequencing data from different organisms all over the world.

From the opening on the sea floor to a few feet away from the vent, a temperature gradient is formed along which different organisms might live, depending on their temperature preference.

These types of studies could yield the biggest reward, revealing whether different organisms are correlated with different health states.

However, recent studies in a variety of different organisms have shown that it can play a central role in promoting this process as well.

Nonetheless, he says, the study provides strong support for the idea — which some researchers have challenged — that comparable genes in different organisms have similar functions.

They can do this by combining genes from many different organisms, or even by designing new ways to translate genetic sequences of genes into protein products.

Cell maps from different organisms or cell types can be compared to identify important components.

In order to help make such decisions Birch suggests that Christians distinguish between «degrees of intrinsic value» based on different organisms» Capacities for sentience.

Sari is also generally interested in how different organisms participate in the processing of terrestrial organic matter in surface waters.

That doesn't mean monkeys automatically become humans, they could branch off into different organisms, but we still evolved from them.

DNA and proteins don't preserve very well, but lipids [fatty molecules] do, and we can identify different organisms through characteristic lipids.

The cells of such different organisms as roundworms, flies and humans use the insulin / IGF signalling pathway.

«Kris is unusual not only in his willingness to work with several different organisms, but also to take on high - risk problems,» says MIT's Fink, Niyogi's graduate adviser.

Different types of algae may look similar, but they're actually very different organisms.

The same functions evolving independently in completely different organisms has been seen before in the animal and plant kingdoms.

«This may establish how, not only this gene, but relatives of this gene in many, many different organisms actually work.»

Birch argues that a life - centered ethic while seeking to maximize the well - being of all life — must recognize that the Interests of different organisms often conflict, and that humans often must decide between competing interests.

All coordinate to become a unitary organism of millions of cells with a body plan that is different for different organisms.

According to Arens, one of the many insights that conservation biologists have gleaned from their study of living ecosystems is that different organisms respond differently to environmental stress.

This is single Portugese man - of - war, but you're actually looking at four different organisms right now.

Strome noted that the findings in this study of transmission of histone methylation in C. elegans have important implications in other organisms, even though different organisms use the repressive marker that was studied to regulate different genes during different aspects of development.

The basic idea behind this «molecular clock» technique is that the distance between the same genes on two different organisms represents the time it took for the second organism to evolve from the first.

They are not just subtly different organisms, but really charismatically different,» Rowe said.

That would make our species» similarities a case of convergent evolution, when two vastly different organisms develop the same traits independently.

«There are many different organisms known as intracellular pathogens, and we want to see whether they go through the same process,» he says.

New research shows how two drastically different organisms — a green alga and the spotted salamander — get along as cellular roommates.

While the CRISPR technology is pretty awesome, humans genetically modifying different organisms is nothing new.

The technique involves reading a specific section of genetic material from every one of hundreds of thousands of microbes, making it possible to identify many of the thousands of different organisms present in the gut and determine their relative abundance.

BPL: Evolution is a fact — we know from the fossil record that different organisms existed at different times, and unless you postulate constant acts of micro-creation, it makes more sense that stage 11 evolved from stage 10.

Those questions include possible effects on different organisms, from plants to earthworms to birds to people, Rochman says.

All living things use the same language, but codon usage and tRNA availability varies among different organisms and different tissues — just as the spelling «colour» predominates among the British, while «color» is more common among Americans.

Ringworm and staph infection can cause similar - looking clinical signs on a dog's skin, but they're caused by entirely different organisms.

They also measured how different organisms use carbon — transforming it into carbon dioxide — rather than just eating the particles, Lampitt said.

Differences in gene expression may thus explain how largely similar genomes create such different organisms.

Pronounced li - ken, lichens are actually a complex symbiotic partnership of several different organisms.

The work sheds shed new light on how very different organisms can evolve similar traits in response to their environments, a process known as convergent evolution.

So I think there are huge opportunities for improvements in making the chemicals we want by using microbe communities, or by combining parts from different organisms into new microbial «chemists.»

«For decades, researchers have struggled to understand why many different organisms — trees, fish, corals, insects — from various habitats reproduce synchronously and at certain intervals,» says Saran Twombly, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research.

«So the contamination of long - lived radionuclides in different organisms in the local marine food webs needs to be monitored continually.»