Sentences with phrase «from photosynthetic»

Turtle grass: Thalassia testudinum: BEACHCOMBERS TIP: While snorkeling on calm days over the Thalassia, 4 to 5» deep, if one looks carefully one can see streams of tiny bubbles of oxygen coming from the photosynthetic reactions of the Thalassia.

Earth's much thicker layer of low - level ozone, however, has a much larger contribution from the build - up of molecular oxygen beginning some 2.4 billion years ago from photosynthetic microbes excreting oxygen as a waste gas, which now along with plant life is constantly replenishing Earth's two - atom as well as three - stom ozone oxygen molecules.

The work is part of a growing field called optogenetics, and used light - activated proteins from photosynthetic algae to switch nerve cells on and off.

Scientists thought the slugs might get extra food from the photosynthetic organelles (SN: 2/13/10, p. 10).

«So basically, the idea is that we hijack a portion of the energy produced by the microalgae from their photosynthetic systems.

Not exact matches

Combining the capture of photosynthetic carbon from biomass with CCUS can enable negative emissions.

I wuld ahve preferred some form of photosynthetic skin capable of getting energy for bodily functions directly from sunlight, instead of masticating and swallowing dead organic matter like some kind of cheap coal engine.

Incorporation of CNTs into chloroplasts extracted from plants enhanced choloroplast's photosynthetic activity by 49 % compared to the control.

(Lichens combine a fungus and at least one kind of photosynthetic pal from another kingdom, but traditionally the fungus gets the name.)

Wightman et al. show that Saxifraga scardica from the Balkans also has a distinctive transparent leaf margin that apparently deflects incident light into inner, photosynthetic layers of the leaf.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

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Carbon isotopes from tooth enamel yield dietary information because different isotope signatures reflect different photosynthetic pathways of plants consumed during enamel development.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

The best explanation, says Hayes, is that these hydrocarbons were formed by «heterotrophic» bacteria, which fed by rotting down the organic material from dead photosynthetic cells.

One such effect, called bleaching, occurs when the symbiotic algae that are essential for providing nutrients to the coral either lose their identifying photosynthetic pigmentation and their ability to perform photosynthesis or disappear entirely from the coral's tissue.

New work from a team including Carnegie's Mark Heinnickel, Wenqiang Yang, and Arthur Grossman identified a protein needed for assembling the photosynthetic apparatus that may help us understand the history of photosynthesis back in the early days of life on Earth, a time when oxygen was not abundant in the atmosphere.

The team was able to figure out that at least one aspect of CGL71's job is to protect the photosynthetic apparatus from oxygen during its assembly.

By taking ice samples for the last five winters and analyzing for the chlorophyll produced by algae and photosynthetic bacteria, Twiss and his team have determined that from November to April the Lake experiences great primary productivity, more so than in spring or summer.

Because mitochondria and the photosynthetic chloroplasts are derived from joint bacterial ancestors, the study not only contributes to a better understanding of the formation and function of the cells» powerhouses, but also provides new insights into the formation of chloroplasts and bacteria.

The authors infer — from the way modern photosynthetic organisms react to changing marine arsenic concentrations — that this event was due to widespread ocean toxicity resulting from the release of toxic elements into the oceans when the ice melted.

Ozone, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation here on Earth, forms when oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms (like trees and phytoplankton) synthesizes in light.

Photosynthetic microbes employ quantum coherence to efficiently channel the incoming energy from photons

«Our lab and others have put a gene from cyanobacteria into crop plants and found that it boosts the photosynthetic rate by 30 percent,» he said.

The pioneering research was performed on a photosynthetic LH1 - RC complex from the bacterium Blastochloris viridis, which can harvest and use light at wavelengths over 1,000 nm.

Acting like miniature trees that soak up sunlight and release oxygen, photosynthetic bacteria injected into the heart may lighten the damage from heart attacks, a new study in rats suggests.

Plastids have their own genome and are responsible for harvesting energy from light in photosynthetic plants and algae.

In the open seas, heavy winds and deep waters lead to a high turnover in the water column, which prevents photosynthetic microorganisms like algae from converting sunlight into energy.

Scientists from the BOREA research unit first suspected the presence of microalgae in Paris streets after noting the characteristic green or brown color of gutter water and observing the presence of bubbles, which are the result of photosynthetic activity.

These photosynthetic microorganisms grab CO2 from the atmosphere, and when death beckons, their carbon - rich bodies get buried in the depths.

The team from Bochum is already looking for ways to optimise the «cell factories»; more specifically: the researchers are striving to improve photosynthetic electron transport.

«Any photosynthetic system on Europa would have to live at a depth removed from the high radiation bombarding the ice surface and still get light,» Baross says.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

As photosynthetic bacteria prospered and spread, the concentration of oxygen in air and water became abundant as early as Year 2.24 billion (see update from Bekker et al, 2004).

Although radiation from Jupiter's magnetosphere would be harmful to life on Europa's surface down to a depth of a few centimeters, sunlight could sustain photosynthetic organisms beneath the ice to a depth of several meters.

Many of these microbes persist today; for example, blue - green (cyanobacteria) or bright green, photosynthetic bacteria use light from the Sun and chlorophyll to convert carbon dioxide and water into «free» molecular oxygen and carbon, made into essential organic substances such as carbohydrates.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Contrary to recent reports, our analyses reveal no evidence that these species are descended from an ancestor that contained a photosynthetic endosymbiont.

For discovering the molecular mechanisms by which plants extract information from light and shade to modify their programs of shoot and leaf growth in the photosynthetic harvest of light.

Unlike shallow - water corals, which rely on photosynthetic algae and sunlight to grow, deep - sea corals get energy from filtering organic material that falls from the surface.

In an artificial photosynthetic system, the oxidation of water molecules into oxygen, electrons and protons (hydrogen ions) provides the electrons needed to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water.

These mats are likely composed of, among other bacteria, Chloroflexus, a filamentous photosynthetic microbe (yes, it produces energy from sunlight like plants do!)

Even more crustal minerals were formed by plate tectonics with the help of lubricating ocean water, atmospheric oxygen from the successful development of photosynthetic microbes, and land - based lichens (of algae and fungi) and mosses which were followed by deep - rooted plants that hastened the erosion and weathering of surface rocks with the help of biochemical action and the creation of soils as well as new clay minerals.

It contains antioxidants and substances from the original living organic plant matter, even strands of RNA, DNA and photosynthetic material.

I'm laying down to recover health by bathing my photosynthetic skin in the sun when my evil twin leaps from a portal and starts firing a laser pistol at me.

Writing can illuminate sequential procedures that students need to learn in mathematics and science, from factoring an equation to the photosynthetic chemical process.

Vascular plants have lignified tissue and specialized structures termed xylem and phloem, which transport water, minerals, and nutrients upward from the roots and return sugars and other photosynthetic products.