Sentences with phrase «female animals form»

When female animals form egg cells inside their ovaries, they deposit messenger RNAs (mRNAs)-- a sort of genetic instruction set — in the egg cell cytoplasm.

Not exact matches

To further most animal species, except some of the more basic forms of life and the earliest ones, sexual intercourse between male and female is needed.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

Read previous Zoologger columns: The only males with more brain than females, How a blurry - eyed spider pounces on target, Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own, Unique life form is half plant, half animal, Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip, My brain's so big it spills into my legs, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, To kill a mockingbird?

Read previous Zoologger columns: Unmasking the Zorro of the avian world, The worm that looks like a tree, The bird that cares for its rival's chicks, Itsy bitsy teeny weeny chameleons, Don't bite — how the zebra got its stripes, The only males with more brain than females, How a blurry - eyed spider pounces on target, Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own, Unique life form is half plant, half animal, Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip, My brain's so big it spills into my legs, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, To kill a mockingbird?

Males rarely force females to mate, but after years spent observing the animals in the wild, Huchard noticed that a subtler form of sexual coercion appeared to be going on.

In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote — the first cell of a new baby chicken.

A dispiriting glimpse of animal abuse at a New York City shelter in 1966 prompted Wyler's interest in animal rights activism; she subsequently became the first female board member of the ASPCA and formed The Ark Trust.

As female animals in the farming and breeding industry are turned into voiceless, unfeeling commodities, they are stripped of any form of respect we would expect as female human - beings.

Female dogs and cats who have gone through their first heat are 16 times more likely to develop the animal form of breast cancer than animals who are spayed before their first heat.

There will be hyperpigmented canvases by British - Nigerian Yinka Shonibare MBE, of the Young British Artists generation; animal - skin sculptures of the female form by the Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo; portraits by the queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi; the 2013 Venice Biennale's Angola Pavilion installation by photographer Edson Chagas (winner of that year's Golden Lion award); an ebony bust by Soweto - born Mohau Modisakeng; a huge dragon sculpture in rubber and ribbon by the Cape Town — born Nicholas Hlobo; and sheets made of 1,150 tiny glass beads by American artist Liza Lou, who has a studio in Durban, a South African city around 800 miles from Cape Town.

Images (left to right): Mouth mask probably depicting the head of a rooster, Indonesia, Southeast Moluccas, Leti, Luhuleli, 19th century, wood, boar tusks, clam shell, mother - of - pearl, buffalo horn, resinous material, and pigment, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; Ceremonial cloth (tampan), Indonesia, South Sumatra, Lampung region, Paminggir people, late 19th century, cotton, Dallas Museum of Art, the Steven G. Alpert Collection of Indonesian Textiles, gift of The Eugene McDermott Foundation; Protective figure (jaraik) in the form of an animal, Indonesia, West Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Siberut Island, Taileleu village, c. 1930, wood, pigment, shell, metal, rattan strips, grass fibers, and monkey skull, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; Male and female protective figures (pagar), Indonesia, North Sumatra, Lake Toba region, Toba Batak people, 19th century or earlier, wood, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc..

Composed of 246 hybrid half - human, half - animal figurines with leather wings, feathered antennae and female legs, this installation is laid out in the form of entomological plates suggesting notions of the classification and hierarchization of species and, by extension, of genera (woman, animal) and peoples.

In the watercolour Untitled (1955) a female silhouette appears from a subdued swatch of colour, while an animal form hides in the undulating lines of Schwan (Swan)(ca. 1954).