Sentences with phrase «from other organisms»

In agriculture, for example, researchers transfer genes from other organisms into crops to get certain characteristics.

Regardless of what it is used for today, the ability to incorporate DNA from other organisms may have been key when life was just getting started.

The fact is that we humans are not separated from other organisms with respects to the reasons why we are vulnerable to disease.

They do this by inserting genes from other organisms.

The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip...

«It was known for years that bacteria, evolutionarily very distant living organisms of us, had mA in its genome with a protective function against the insertion of genetic material from other organisms.

We can acquire such abilities by importing into the human genome the genetic sequences from other organisms that already possess such attributes.

It meant that researchers could take out the plasmid DNA that caused crown galls and replace it with carefully selected bits of genetic code from other organisms.

Much of the mitochondrial DNA genome of the flowering plant Amborella trichopoda originated from other organisms.

At the root of this idea is overwhelming recent evidence for horizontal gene transfer — in which organisms acquire genetic material «horizontally» from other organisms around them, rather than vertically from their parents or ancestors.

Methanopyrus kandleri has relatively few genes transferred from other organisms compared to other archaea.

specific examples that highlight when and how plants operate differently from other organisms;

Viruses are not only different from other organisms, but also from one another.

Meselson's study suggests that upon patching up their own DNA, the bdelloids simultaneously incorporate random scraps of DNA from other organisms.

The ability to pick up used genes and spare parts from other organisms» DNA junkyards may allow tardigrades to survive extreme stress, such as desiccation, radiation and even a trip to space and back, researchers report online November 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«No organism is isolated from any other organism.

New techniques include CRISPR, the revolutionary gene - editing tool that lets researchers delete or inactivate genes without introducing genetic material from other organisms.

The experiments have, moreover, demonstrated that enzymes from other organisms can be successfully introduced into cyanobacteria.

Contrary to transgenesis, they often do not entail the insertion of genes from other organisms, and are sometimes called «gene editing» or «new breeding techniques».

Because GMO crops are tweaked in a lab to contain harmless DNA from other organisms, like bacteria, which help make them more resistant to things like drought or pests, they are regulated by the USDA.

And while they don't seem to be sharing genes with each other, they are definitely getting some on the side — from other organisms.

But if we really want to be scrupulous (and we do at Science News), we would have to admit that very few of these qualities are sufficient to set us apart from all other organisms.

A peek at tardigrades» genetic diaries may dispel a rumor about an amazing feat the tiny creatures were supposed to perform: borrowing large numbers of genes from other organisms.

After comparing all three genomes, the researchers have now found that tardigrades borrowed only 133 genes, about 0.7 percent of their genes, from other organisms.

Drying out allows the animals to absorb DNA from other organisms, which may confer stress tolerance.

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.

Some contain genes from other organisms that impart a particular trait.