Sentences with phrase «for individual organisms»

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

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«Rome is burning at the moment,» Christopher Page, a biologist who oversees production and growth of new coral seeds at Mote, told me as he pointed to a tank full of polyps, the name for individual coral organisms.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

And it is in this Leopoldian vein that he opens the door, perhaps unwittingly, to the second question mentioned above: What, if anything, is the ethical status of individual nonhuman organisms, as they exist in and for themselves?

For when monistic thinking of this sort prevails, individual organisms are not really appreciated for their own sakes and on their own terFor when monistic thinking of this sort prevails, individual organisms are not really appreciated for their own sakes and on their own terfor their own sakes and on their own terms.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

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.

See my «Whitehead and Jonas: On Biological Organisms and Real Individuals,» Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics (a Festschrift for Hans Jonas), Stuart F. Spicker, editor; Philosophy and Medicine, Volume 7 (Dordrect and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978).

This possibility, he held, «establishes the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well as for the individual, organism.

As Cosmic Life he is an Individual Organism who is striving for his own fulfillment through the perfection of his body - world.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

For practical purposes, we will use a common, working definition, even though it only strictly applies to se - xually reproducing organisms, and that is: A species is comprised of individuals capable of interbreeding to produce fer - tile offspring.

If we take the definition of life as being said to be present when an organism shows evidence of individual animate existence, then from the blastocyst stage the fetus qualifies for respect.

Finally, the authors addressed two major challenges for any study that generates large data - sets of individual genes and proteins in model organisms like yeast: How to assemble the data into coherent maps?

«Every time an individual divides, it's still alive and it takes six to 24 hours for most of these organisms to reproduce,» he said.

These modifications — most often the addition of methyl groups to individual DNA bases — in some instances carry a sort of historical record of what an organism has experienced (for example, exposure to foreign chemicals in the womb).

Darwin's theory of natural selection identifies in a qualitative way the cause of evolutionary change: natural selection operating through a struggle among individual organisms for reproductive success.

In natural, unaltered organisms, she explains, each sequence of DNA in a genome codes for a particular outcome, expressed as a protein that determines a quality of the individual or even the species as a whole.

Wyrick and WSU colleagues Peng Mao, Michael Smerdon and Steven Roberts irradiated yeast cells and looked for patterns of damage at the level of individual base pairs, the DNA building blocks whose order serves as an organism's blueprint.

If the results can be replicated in other species, it will represent a boost for the hologenome theory of evolution — the idea that the object of natural selection is not the individual organism nor even just its genes, but also those of the microbes it hosts.

So while unicellularity is clearly a successful way of life for many organisms, for others the collective benefit of multicellularity appears to outweigh the loss of individual fitness for each somatic cell that is denied a chance to pass on its particular genome.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

But in a polyploid organism such as wheat, mutations in individual genes often have no apparent effect, because additional copies of the mutated gene compensate for the loss.

The third modular network incorporates known polymorphisms or haplotypes that influence each of the generic responses to organism stress (intermediate phenotype, I, or response genome or proteome), and will define, for example, the extent to which an individual can mount an inflammatory response, develop thrombosis, or accommodate oxidant stress.

VY: I'd like to go back to the idea that evolution has created a beautiful canvas for understanding regeneration with all these different organisms that already exist in nature, and that we can learn quite a bit by querying not only individual systems but multiple systems that share this unique quality.

The long - term experiments are designed to account for complex interactions between individual organisms.

New approaches to microscopy, precision laser ablation of individual cells and capillaries, and genetic engineering of model organisms are opening new vistas for exploring the brain and how it works.

Rather than placing the entire responsibility for advocating for the sequencing of various organisms upon individual researchers, NHGRI has established three working groups comprised of experts from across the research community.

Many of the pathogenic organisms reported to be inactivated by these antimicrobial lipids are those known to be responsible for opportunistic infections in HIV - positive individuals.

If we can give these individuals, incarnated with the propensity to use their minds as instruments of expression, growth, and evolution, the tools to balance their bodily organism, it is my belief that they will come into fuller contact with their soul, their reason for being, and their essential role in ushering us into the next story.

The organisms used in these products is tailored to the individual species — you won't get good results if you give your dog a product made for horses, for example, or vice versa.

While Iglesias clearly does not indulge in Baroque spectacle and has taken the fountain tradition far beyond mere lavish ornament, her uses of water seem to me to resonate with the deeper implications of Descartes» analogy, for the regular pulse of Tres Aguas evokes the mind - body symbiosis of every living organism as well as the reciprocity that needs to exist between nature and society, individual and community.

Nothing can be good for the tribe as such; «good» and «value» pertain only to a living organism — to an individual living organism — not to a disembodied aggregate of relationships.

Iris Hendriks of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies recently analyzed data from a wide sample of research into how individual organisms respond to increased carbon dioxide in their seawater.

We seek a highly creative and interactive scholar whose research and teaching interests are focused on innovative approaches for theoretical, empirical, and computational analyses in Earth and Environmental Sciences and whose research addresses dynamics at any scale - from individual organisms to the entire globe.

There is no intrinsic constraint on live crown area for trees of this size other than the resources the organism is able to devote to this process (except for factors like average stand height and their effect upon exposure at the individual tree level).