Sentences with phrase «how organisms»

They spend most of their time researching and discovering how organisms function.

They try to understand how these organisms live, grow, and interact with their environments.

The research team is analyzing those samples with civil and environmental engineering professor Tim Mattes, who is able to pull DNA out of the sediment to figure out how organisms living in the lake changed throughout the Younger Dryas.

There is a potentially enormous payoff if we can develop an understanding of how organisms can thrive at the beds of glaciers.

The experiments we have made by paving our cities and making them heat up may have much more to tell us about how organisms will handle future warming.

Hoffman Brandt, who explores how organisms function in complex environments, will construct live stakes of red - dogwood plantings into patterns of Morse Code, guiding visitors to hidden exhibitions throughout the area though her project titled Red Carpet Encrypted.

The laws of behaviorism tell us how all organisms, from humans to cockroaches, learn from their environments, just as the laws of physics define and govern the way physical objects move and interact with each other.

How organisms are organised.

9 slides covering adaptations: Explain how organisms are adapted to live in their natural environment.

«From the work of Claude Bernard in the 19th century, the concept of homeostasis as the maintenance of a constant internal environment is deeply ingrained in our thinking about how organisms work,» the researchers write.

Hunter is planning to attend medical school but said that the project gave him a greater understanding of genetics and how organisms are related to each other.

Another collaborative effort, the Ecological Genomics Institute, explores how organisms react to environments with short - term ecological and long - term evolutionary responses along with the genetic underpinnings of such responses.

«By learning how organisms such as the zebrafish can regenerate damaged tissues and applying these lessons to humans, scientists at MDIBL are increasing our understanding of how we might one day slow and potentially reverse the degenerative effects of aging.

,» Schrödinger focused on how organisms, such as fruit flies, employ quantum mechanical effects to combat entropy by producing order from disorder.

Thus, given its deep history in understanding how organisms counter infection, LJI is well prepared to lead the charge against inflammatory disease, because often the same cells that rid us of infection are the ones that destroy healthy tissue in inflammatory or autoimmune disease.

But in recent decades, scientific advances — such as the ability to manipulate genes and turn them on and off in developing embryos — have provided us with a plethora of new information, and insights into how organisms develop and change.

Stem cell researchers hope to discover how organisms develop from a single cell and how healthy cells might be used to replace damaged cells that cause such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease.

Most projects are related to the climate and environment, or to how organisms survive in such extreme conditions.

Through sampling these ecosystems, we will gain more knowledge of how these organisms survive.

So it is difficult, says Grzymski, to imagine how these organisms might survive in the dark, under kilometers of ice.

She said that doing so would result in new information of how organisms evolved over a period of 120,000 years in isolation from the earth's atmosphere.

Understanding how organisms grow from one cell type to many different cell types is the overall goal of lineage tracing or fate mapping experiments, the first of which date to the late 19th century.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

Ginger Armbrust, Ph.D., from the University of Washington explained that an equally important outcome would be to «expand the community of people that are working on these organisms and making big breakthroughs into how these organisms function.»

Caltech biologists work to reveal nature's mechanisms — how tens of thousands of components act in concert in cells, how organisms grow from single cells, how the brain maintains its consciousness, emotions, and superb computational capabilities, and what happens when any of those processes goes awry.

This finding significantly enhances our understanding of how organisms use MMR to reduce spontaneous mutation rates.

Their work is starting to reveal how diverse ecological communities can change and adapt over time, putting to the test ideas developed out in the field about how organisms adapt to one another as well as to their environment.

Parker agrees, adding that the strategic use of ants by other species is an underexplored area of biology: «This is evolution at its most extreme: the more we look, the more these creatures force us to modify our ideas of how organisms make a living.»

«Although I've stayed within the same general framework,» Dehority says, «I did shift gears several times» — from bacteria to fungi and then protozoa, eventually studying how these organisms relate to each other in breaking down forage in the stomachs of ruminants.

«We're interested to learn how organisms mediate mineralization and commonly it is challenging to demonstrate that a mineral was produced by living organism,» said Templeton.

«The idea of how organisms and their cells evolve is still a big burning question.»

It's possible that some of the same genes also play a broader role in how organisms such as humans and sheep tell one face from another.

How organisms like the deepwater prawn cope with undersaturated waters?

This guarantees further research into the topic, especially on the Mg - calcite solubility to further understand how organisms cope with these seawater conditions.

With his usual style and wit, he discusses the use of methods and models adapted from physics and mechanical engineering to explore how organisms move and function.

These researchers applied novel computer programs to their map of species interactions to predict how the organisms would behave in different settings.

Bob Bloomer asked how organisms» molecular machinery can run smoothly when there are so many «jumping genes» around.

«Wiggling and jiggling»: Study explains how organisms evolve to live at different temperatures.»

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

At a time when humans are imposing an unprecedented burden on the world's ecosystems, studying how organisms can tolerate pollutants is crucial to understanding the impact of human activities — and to helping to mitigate it in the future.

They and their ability to interact with organisms and move genetic material around are the major players in driving speciation, in determining how organisms even become what they are.»

«Predation, or the action of attacking one's prey, is a significant factor in evolution; this discovery is extremely important in the study of how organisms evolved in the Cambrian Period,» Schiffbauer said.

It is rare that we get to study the activities of 500 million - year - old organisms, yet the fossils in this locality are helping us determine how these organisms behaved.»

To figure out how organisms might have endured periods of so - called «catastrophic darkness», Charles Cockell of the Open University's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research in Milton Keynes, UK, and his team placed samples of both freshwater and marine microorganisms in darkness...

C. reinhardtii is a popular tool among researchers seeking to unpack how organisms sense and respond to light.

Our approach has been to understand how organisms are structured and distributed in these ecosystems.

«It may help us understand how these organisms persist in nature.»

This is also a good example of how organisms of the same appearance, or phenotype (the tall parent and their offspring), can have different genotypes, or combinations of genes (TT versus Tt).

Although this was partly an echo of the earliest ideas about how organisms develop and the old suggestion that the future organism was preformed in the egg, Schrödinger's idea was very different.

Knowing this could be the key to understanding how organisms — from healthy cells to cancerous tumors — replicate and multiply for their survival.