Sentences with phrase «dormant stage»
The phrase "dormant stage" means a period of rest or inactivity in which something or someone is not actively growing or developing. Full definition
An accurate portrayal of evolution involves long dormant stages with short rapid evolutionary periods — logically implying a pre-programmed ability to adjust to surroundings.
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By the start of the bird migration season, skeptics point out, water flea eggs and dormant stages called «statoblasts» in bryozoans would have sunk to the muddy bottom, out of reach of foraging birds.
Remarkably, each of the populations adapted by prolonging their dormant stage to match the exposure duration.
The round body is a dormant stage that has all the genes and can start growing again, like a fungal spore.
For single celled organisms, if there was not enough nutrients, they simply went into a dormant stage.
We also sell goji trees from January to March in the dormant stage, which means the branches have been pruned back and we take the roots out of the pot / soil, and wrap the root system in moist burlap bag.
This dormant stage of roundworm larvae can also exist in transient or intermediate hosts such as rodents, and if mice are eaten, the process of digestion will release the larvae in the dog's intestine, where they will not migrate (because they are in a different form), but develop into roundworms.
The whole cycle can be as quick as 20 days or can last up to one full year; this is because the flea may be in a dormant stage for a long time.
But the plant is in its dormant stage now, and it looks like a brown, stringy mop — striking in itself.
A bacterial spore is a dormant stage of growth for the organism and is highly resistant to heat, radiation and drying.