Sentences with phrase «giving scientific names»

That might be confusing to students, but you can explain that the system of giving scientific names to plants resulted from the fact that scientists were confused too!

There is a golden spike hiding in a rock face outside the village of Moffat in Scotland that marks the end of the Ordovician, denoted by the appearance of these graptolite survivors — Akidograptus ascensus and Parakidograptus acuminatus, to give them their scientific names.

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The moral ambivalence of the new medical and scientific achievements also explains the public fascination with the two events: «Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord» (Job 1:21, KJV).

Amongst philosophers and logicians, particularly amongst those who have given special attention to scientific problems, many names could be mentioned, including that great thinker, L. T. Hobhouse, whom I like to mention first because I owe so much to his writings.

Named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up humankind, this company — which touts its «FDA standards for clinical and scientific validity» — offers genetic health risk and carrier status reports, gives ancestry percentages down to 0.1 percent, and the opt - in ability to join the DNA Relative Finder.

The comet was named after the project that discovered it, the International Scientific Optical Network, or ISON, and given an official designation of C / 2012 S1 (ISON).

The team gave the new formal scientific name of Sederipes goddardensis, meaning sitting traces from Goddard Space Flight Center, to this unusual configuration of tracks.

Giving the olinguito its scientific name is just the beginning.

The terrestrial species in the petition are still under status review; the aquatic species received negative findings because they have not yet been given formal scientific names.

In most scientific papers on the cane toad, the official name of the species is given as Bufo marinus — the first name (Bufo, the genus) is based on this species being a «true toad» or bufonid.

Identifying information, including patients» names, initials, or hospital numbers, should be omitted unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication.

It wasn't until 27 years later, in 1972, that «Activator X» was given it's proper scientific name, menatetrenone, which we know as Vitamin K2.

We aim to provide you with better quality matches each time and using our scientific approach this gives us the name of being the dating site with the brains behind the butterflies.

After being completed, Blathers gives a small talk on the finished fossil, while the fossil itself has its scientific name and the period in history that it lived in written next to the exhibit.

Pursued by the kind of shifty, shadowy military - scientific organisation that would make William Stryker proud, ol' Logan hits the tarmac (in true Little Miss Sunshine style) with a mute mutant girl named Laura and a cranky old geezer... Namely Professor Charles Xavier, played with alternating tenderness and profane gusto by Stewart, who gives his finest turn yet in the role, as Charles battles dementia with pharmaceuticals.

The scientific name he gave to the sweet, yellow banana was Musa sapentium, from a Latin term meaning «wise» (as in the tree of knowledge).

If you can give your vet both the plants common, and scientific name.

This is the scientific name given to the domestic dog.

Giving florists the scientific name of the flower species can help avoid confusion.

4 The northern fur seal's scientific name Callorhinus ursinus means «bear - like,» which reflects «sea bear,» the name originally given them by Europeans.

John Gray gave the Gray Whale the scientific name of Eschrichtius robustus after zoologist Daniel Eschricht.

The committee also pointed to several awards given to Mann for his research including Scientific American's naming Mann as one of the «50 leading visionaries in science and technology» and its selection of a web site co-founded by Mann as one of the top 25 «science and technology» web sites in 2005.

Despite the impression given by its name and the image the way in which the media portrays it, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is not a professional scientific organization; in fact, for a $ 25.00 donation, you can also become a «concerned scientist.»

Everytime an author publishes something different from what the IPCC published in their last report — from Solomon et al. on stratospheric water vapor trends to all the new hockey sticks post the so - called «iconic» Mann hockeystick, each of which is somewhat different, to all the GWP - replacement metrics proposed by Fuglesvedt et al., to practically any paper published in the scientific literature or any talk given at AGU... scientists don't make their name by publishing papers that say, «yup, we're just saying exactly what the IPCC said.

(If the greens had really won the argument, why would they not try to give the institutions that have been created in its name the legitimacy of a popular mandate, as well as blessing it with scientific authority?)

You were all morally or ethically opposed to naming names by publicly saying «Hey, Phil, give Warwick the data, anything else goes against scientific transparency».