Sentences with phrase «dormancy known»
The 15 - centimeter - long tortoises feed when rains fill swampy habitats in winter, and then enter a state of dormancy known as estivation when the swamps dry out to clay pans in the late spring or early summer.
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From all we know from legislative studies, dormancy may be, as you conjecture, part and parcel of a wider trend of parliamentary decline across Europe and maybe the world.
They showed how ANG maintains stem cells by inducing a state of quiescence, or cellular dormancy, the first known evidence of ANG's suppressive activity.
«We still don't really know what's happening with the carbohydrate reserves as these plants just start to break dormancy.
We know that farmers / orchard growers have been using defoliants for decades in order to force their trees into dormancy.
Again we know that chemicals for forcing dormancy in trees have been used by some farmers for decades.