Sentences with phrase «first living organism»

The first living organism found on Mars creates a whole mess of problems for the crew on the International Space Station, all of whom Espinosa introduces in an eight - minute one shot.

The term «primordial soup» refers to the liquid in which the proteins and most basic enzymes could interact and eventually create the first cells, and the first living organisms.

These molecules would have evolved into the first living organisms.

Alkaline hydrothermal vents of this type are suggested to be the birthplace of the first living organisms on the ancient Earth.

While Kotov says the first living organisms were likely microscale, he's quick to point out that the work doesn't say nanoparticle ribbons of any sort are precursors to life.

They were the first living organisms on Earth and contain every nutrient needed to feed all life and plant forms on Earth.

Not exact matches

For the first time ever, scientists have developed a complete model of an organism, accounting for every molecular interaction in the entire life span of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium.

Now those who accept the evolutionary perspective are generally agreed that the universe is one single process and that there are stages in the process: the evolution of matter, next the emergence of the first unicellular organisms, then a process of further evolution of life toward vegetative and animal life, and from this latter phase emerged man.

First, the aim at intensity or richness of experience on the part of individual moments of the soul's life leads the soul to actualize itself in ways that are immediately rewarding to it, independently of their consequences for the organism as a whole.

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

The Church is first a lived reality, more like a developing organism than an external structure authoritatively imposing belief.

Teilhard envisions that the processive realization in history of the atonement actualized in Christ will proceed to a threshold of sudden change, much like the «quantum leap» in which life first emerged on earth, and there will emerge a total humanity newly unified into an «organism» about Christ, the center of centers (PM 288ff.).

Its first sentence reads, «The main thesis of this book is that all living organisms are subjects.»

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

First, suicide is contrary to nature: every living organism naturally desires to preserve its life.

You see, it's the same problem as your first step, you cant just say «all of a sudden, WHAM living organisms capable of reproduction POOF «ed into existence».

The Theory of Evolution only talks about how life evolved from the first single celled organism up till what we have today.

One of these, IgA, which is present in highest amounts in the first few days of life, contains many antibodies against viruses, bacteria and other disease - causing organisms.

Starts with the first single - cell organisms and end with modern life forms.

«This is the first time that Bdellovibrio has ever been used as an injected therapy in live organisms,» Sockett says.

At its first big conference, held just 10 years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the startling initial premise was that life is simply too complicated for biotechnologists to easily modify and that it would be better if engineers rebuilt life from scratch so the created organisms did exactly what was required.

Life's resilience and the sheer diversity of terrestrial organisms were not obvious on July 20, 1976, when the first Viking lander touched down on Mars's Chryse Planitia lowlands, programmed to find life as we then knewLife's resilience and the sheer diversity of terrestrial organisms were not obvious on July 20, 1976, when the first Viking lander touched down on Mars's Chryse Planitia lowlands, programmed to find life as we then knewlife as we then knew it.

Back when life first took hold, genes flowed around freely; genetic sequences skipped around from organism to organism in much the way they may soon on the Internet.

It's the first time biological tools have bonded carbon to silicon, perhaps opening a way to let living organisms build proteins and...

Since life first emerged more than 3 billion years ago, single - celled organisms have dominated the planet for most of its history.

This is the first thorough census of the gut microbiome — which consists of all the microorganisms that live in the gut of the organism — in queen bees.

«What we wanted to know is why these large organisms appeared at this particular point in Earth's history,» said Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill of Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences and Tokyo Tech's Earth - Life Science Institute, the paper's first author.

IF YOU found a self - replicating organism living inside your computer, your first instinct might be to reach for the antivirus software.

The presence of methane on Mars, first discovered a few years ago, has piqued the curiosity of researchers, who wonder if the gas results from geologic activity or, more intriguingly, from living organisms, as is largely the case on Earth.

The first comprehensive scientific treatise on our reliance on other species, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, published in 2008, confirmed the importance of genetic variety, describing groups of threatened organisms crucial to agriculture and human medicine.

(Syn 2.0 was an intermediate stage in this process, the first microbe with a genome smaller than that of M. genitalium, which with 525 genes has the fewest of any free - living natural organism.)

«We have now developed the first model where we can observe the development of a stem cell into a mature blood cell in a living organism.»

As Sergi Taboada explains, «the fact that we have found Osedax for the first time ever in the Mediterranean proves that these organisms can also live in temperate latitudes in relatively shallow depths even though they are usually related with deeper waters.

They are the first known organisms to derive energy by photosynthesis while living in an environment naturally devoid of sunlight.

Simpler kinds of living organisms came first, and it took hundreds of millions of years of evolution on Earth to progress from single - celled life forms to complex organisms like ourselves.

Instead of approaching the origins - of - life puzzle from a chemistry perspective, Ranjan looked at it from a planetary perspective, attempting to identify the actual conditions that might have existed on early Earth, around the time the first organisms appeared.

But somewhere amid this chaotic period, the chemistry of the Earth turned in life's favor, giving rise, however improbably, to the planet's very first organisms.

This is not the first gene found to affect an organism's life - span.

With the help of colleagues, he then came up with the first list of cave biodiversity hot spots — those with at least 20 organisms specialized for subterranean life, according to the criteria they settled on.

Brachiopods are one of the first known examples of animal biomineralisation — a process whereby living organisms stiffen or harden tissues with minerals.

«First aid kit in some living organisms helps fix DNA after lengthy sun exposure: New study unveils the binding mechanisms of enzymes capable of repairing DNA damaged by UV light before any risk of cellular malfunction sets in.»

Many researchers worry that acidification will make life harder for some shell - building marine organisms such as clams, crabs, and shrimp; more - acidic water could corrode the creatures» shells, or make it harder to build them in the first place.

This is the first study to use genetic analysis to pinpoint the source of a raft carrying live organisms, says Kenneth Sytsma, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The quarrel is juicy enough in itself, but it also carries major scientific importance: The discoveries provide contrasting insights into the identity of Earth's first organisms, as well as what life might look like beyond our planet.

The first animals evolved from their single - celled ancestors around 800 million years ago, but new evidence suggests that this leap to multi-celled organisms in the tree of life may not have been quite as dramatic as scientists once assumed.

But the lion's share of the advantage comes from the fact that the conscious mind infuses the exploration of the world outside the brain with a concern for the first and foremost problem facing the organism: the successful regulation of life.

«We were then able to show in studies on mice that the same process occurs in living organisms,» says Boris Strilic, first author of the study.

Earth's first few miles of bedrock teem with life, but scientists had long assumed that only simple, single - celled organisms could survive there.

The work is the first time that a large - scale functional genomic approach has been used to systematically examine how bacteria can gain capabilities that improve their ability to colonize living organisms, in this case mice.