Sentences with phrase «for most organisms»

As for most organisms, pteropod populations fluctuate over the short term.

Colder is much worse than warmer for most organisms and if you needed reminding, then this Winter did it.

There is a fairly narrow range of pH and nutrients required for most organisms to flourish.

Not exact matches

One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

Of course it is possible to concede that the breaking of natural laws, as for instance those of health and hygiene, can incur natural penalties, but surely it surpasses even the most vivid imagination to suppose that one man's disobedience to, and defiance of, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruses!

The bacterium which has been the chief vector, or vehicle, for DNA research is Escherichia Coli (E Coli), genetically and biochemically the most completely analyzed organism on earth, having been grown and studied in laboratories for more than 50 years.

Those organisms with the most useful traits for survival had the better chance of passing on those traits to offspring and so on and so on.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

Similarly, the aims for most living occasions include no (or few) hybrid prehensions, whereas the aim for a dominant occasion in an animal organism is heavily weighted toward hybrid prehensions of past dominant occasions, which in the case of higher organisms jointly constitute the soul or living person.

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Thus animals for the most part have little or no social organization, and in this respect may be likened to single - celled organisms.

Whitehead takes the notion of «organism» as the most profitable one for designating the natural units, but, by making macro-organisms societies of micro-organisms and giving directed activity only to these, he loses the distinctive unity of macro-organisms.

A moment of human experience provides the most accessible organism for our examination.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

Yet it is clear that it is in this direction — towards a more temporalist biology, utilizing a mathematics more suited to the «sinuousities» (CE 212 - 213) of life — he believed biology could most profitably proceed.20 An adequate answer is suggested, however, by Bergson's statement in Mailer and Memory (quoted above) that levels of consciousness (hence breadths of duration) in each organism are precisely commensurate with the organism's capacity for movement — more precisely, for its capacity to employ a wide behavioral repertoire, coupled with necessity of having to choose between specific acts.

Evolutionary biologists for the most part deal with living organisms as objects and not as subjects, so it is not altogether surprising that they do not take account of the subjective.

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland has announced the verification of Truly Grass Fed ™ by the Non-GMO Project, North America's most trusted seal for genetically modified organisms (GMO) avoidance for consumers.

Bacteria are the most abundant organisms on earth, and Jan Vester is looking for bacteria that can be used to produce enzymes or sustainable fertilizer.

Many factors, such as antioxidant mechanisms and dietary and biological factors, influence metabolism, Redman says, but current theories hold that a slower metabolism is most beneficial for healthy aging and that organisms that burn energy most efficiently should experience the greatest longevity.

In other cases, different concentrations of morphogen elicit different responses, and it is this type of gradient that is most important for providing an increase in the complexity of the developing organism.

Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.

Flammang agrees, saying what's most exciting about this is that it really underlines the idea that there is a vertebrate body plan that allows for changes that result in different kinds of animals, adding that the work «really unlocks a way of understanding the differences between organisms.»

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

For example, they revealed that most organisms have two copies of each gene, one from each parent, and that a gene comes in a variety of different forms, or alleles.

Most ethical, policy and media discussions about synthetic biology start from the assumption that these aims have already been achieved: that biology has become easy to engineer for whatever ends we choose, that the toolbox is available to any student or potential terrorist, that dangerous organisms and powerful bioweapons are easy to make, and that no effective regulation is possible.

«I didn't think that most of these coastal organisms could survive at sea for long periods of time,» said Greg Ruiz, a co-author and marine biologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

«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).

Scientists have found that about half of the organisms at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the ocean for tens of millions of years.

In 1968, your friend and mentor Motoo Kimura proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution, arguing that most mutations that occur have neither advantageous nor deleterious consequences for an organism.

They can also compare E. coli's genetic makeup with that of some of the other microorganisms sequenced so far — bakers» yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium responsible for most cases of intestinal ulcers; and Methanococcus thermoautotrophicum, an organism that thrives in hot springs, for example.

Reporting of extensively drug - resistant A. baumannii infection is not required by most public health jurisdictions in the United States, and clinical laboratories generally do not test for an organism's underlying genetic resistance mechanisms.

Perhaps most importantly, these studies demonstrate the general utility of active genetics as a platform for engineering new organisms with novel traits.

The most frigid polar regions and the darkest depths of the ocean are home for a few organisms that like a good chill.

He also believes the technique will work reasonably well for studying the structure and function of proteins in most other model organisms, including laboratory mice.

The most innovative organisms and communities figure out ways to recycle waste into raw material for more housing, new appendages, or further growth.

Most organisms do not live long enough for this process to kill the proteins and, ultimately, the organisms themselves.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competition.

Our genetic technology is only beginning to tap the vast potential benefits of these libraries, and seemingly «minor» species are typically the most specialized organisms; we can expect that ecological specialists will often turn out to have the most unusual genes and hence represent potential resources that we should preserve for our future needs.

For most animals, changes that might prove beneficial to the organism primarily occur at the beginning of their molecular production process.

Several studies have shown that this also holds true for Emiliania huxleyi, the world's most abundant and most productive calcifying organism.

In the classic view of evolution, organisms undergo random genetic mutations, and nature selects for the most beneficial ones.

«The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently classified these carbapenem - resistant organisms in their highest, most urgent antimicrobial resistance threat level,» said James Kirby, MD, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at BIDMC and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

The discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998 heralded a new record holder for the title of the world's largest known organism, believed by most to be the 110 - foot -(33.5 - meter --RRB- long, 200 - ton blue whale.

It will enable scientists working on their desktops to create various mutants and introduce genes from other organisms to see which would be most relevant for work on a new antibiotic, for example.

Organic growers have used Bt proteins in sprays for decades because they kill certain pests but are not toxic to people and most other organisms.

The organism has a huge suite of genes for receptor and signaling proteins, far more than in most similar organisms.

They have been working to combat biofilms for several years, focusing on two of the most common organisms responsible for lung infections: a bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a fungus called Aspergillus fumigatus.