Sentences with phrase «humans used plants»

In ancient times, humans used plants remedies to cure ailments.

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Two terms could be used (from systematic botany): (a) hermaphrodite (from Lat., hermaphroditus, having the characteristics of both male and female), i.e., an individual biologically with both sex organs (unfortunately, the term is applied also to humans who possess both female and male sex organs); (b) monoclinous (Gk., monos, one + kline, a bed), i.e., a plant having flowers with both stamens and pistils — without regard to their spatial arrangement (such flowers are said to be perfect).

How can anyone not believe in God????? Just use your head and look at a baby, the universe, plants, seasons, the human body and how it operates with daily functions, and there is not enough paper or rams on my computer to write all the reasons there is a God.

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

Of all the plant material produced on land each year in the world, humans use 40 per cent.

More sophisticated use of GM plants and animals to produce human medicines — dubbed «pharming» — is a new field which promises to deliver drugs too complex to be synthesised in the test tube.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

We are far from figuring it out though but if we use a bit of common sense we can easily see humans were meant to eat more than plants.

Humans are selecting the plants to use in breeding because they have more useful variations than the other possible plants.

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the human body.

He will continue to deny climate change caused by human activity; and will use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut power plant carbon emissions.

Like its human counterpart, the cat bitter taste receptor Tas2r43 was activated by bitter compounds aloin (found in the aloe plant) and denatonium (used to deter children and pets from consuming chemicals such as antifreeze) but responded differently to the compounds.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products.

Although the discovery was made in plants, Pruitt suspects that animals, including humans, might also use this method to correct faulty genes.

Using computer - generated test crops of dwarf wheat and soybeans, a team led by Federico Maggi at the University of Sydney in Australia simulated how these plants take up nutrients from human...

To reinvent carbon dioxide fixation using such enzymes, Erb and colleagues carefully selected 17 enzymatic compounds from nine organisms — including bacteria, archaea, plants, and humans — bringing them together in a single, collaborative pathway.

Because tomato plants are typically grown in hot, dry climates, they are watered using irrigation systems that draw from the same locations as human drinking water.

It will take in biomass — the generic term for the leaves, stems and other bits of plants not typically used for food for humans and livestock.

WeizMass and MatchWeiz are not limited to the study of plant metabolites but may also be used to investigate the biology of other living systems, including animal and human metabolism.

Although most uses so far have been in research, the potential applications seem to be almost unlimited, given that the techniques are applicable to all organisms, from bacteria to plants, animals, and human beings.»

Analyses of temperate rain forests located on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada suggest that for centuries, humans have intentionally used fire to manage plant - life.

These proteins can not themselves be used to prevent bleeding episodes, because the cellular machinery found in plants can not package the human clotting factors into the biologically active form.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

«I thought about electricity because you can optimise the magnitude and exposure time of the current,» says Cuello, adding that the current he and colleagues used wouldn't be enough to electrocute a human and doesn't burn the plant's cells.

Other examples include bone that shows signs of human modification, fire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food.

What's more, the technology works not just for humans but for almost any higher species and is being used to make high - resolution maps of mice, rats, various plants, and even sheep, goats and pigs.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

In the first human trial of its kind, a vaccine grown in genetically engineered tobacco plants has proved to be safe, paving the way to one day use it to help combat a potentially fatal form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Data of seven species from various domains of life were used: from bacteria, fungi, plants, animals to humans.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

The new approach has already been applied to the species - rich Albertine Rift region of Central and East Africa, identifying those plants and animals that are important for human use and are most likely to decline due to climate change.

The team believes this evaporative cooling process might be used to some degree by all mushroom - producing fungi, including those that cause disease in plants, animals, and humans.

Until now, biologists had long assumed that using plants to grow human vaccines was impossible.

Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengths up to 720 nm — which is in the red part of the light spectrum, at the limit of visibility to the human eye.

Earlier versions of these «base editors,» which target typos related to the other half of disease - causing genetic spelling errors, have already been used to alter genes in plants, fish, mice and even human embryos.

Scientists can use these images to study plant health, phenology, and reproduction, to track disease, and to survey human - mediated habitat disturbances.

They are designing an artificial system that mimics how plants and other photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into molecules that humans can later use for fuel.

Humans have reduced fevers for thousands of years; Hippocrates recommended extracts of the willow tree bark, which was later found to contain salicylic acid, better known as aspirin; Romans, Chinese, and Native Americans used other plants containing similar compounds.

New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe's earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants - all eaten raw.

Since the worms survive on microbes that degrade the sewage, the treatment - plant starlings consumed natural human estrogen along with three estrogen mimics: DEHP, used to manufacture polyvinyl chloride; DBP, found in nail polish; and bisphenol A, common in hard plastic bottles.

Removing micropollutants from water using technology that is sustainable and affordable offers the potential to protect human and aquatic health without expensively retrofitting treatment plants.

What is exciting about these findings is that «now we have a handle on the genes that comprise a universal toolkit for building stomata,» Bergmann explained, «plants apparently use the same common parts, but the ways these parts function and interact with each other are different, which is both interesting from a discovery science perspective and could be harnessed to improve growth performance in grasses that humans use for food or fuel.»

Research Assistant, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology June 2002 — January 2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. John Taylor The lab studies the evolutionary relationships of fungi, concentrating on the fungi that cause plant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their geneaPlant & Microbial Biology June 2002 — January 2004 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. John Taylor The lab studies the evolutionary relationships of fungi, concentrating on the fungi that cause plant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their geneaplant and human diseases, by sequencing DNA from different fungi and using the differences in sequence to infer their genealogy.

The European patent, EP 2 800 811, includes claims covering the widely adopted CRISPR - Cas9 single - guide RNA compositions for use in any non-cellular and cellular setting, including eukaryotic cells, such as mammalian, human and plant cells.

Natural products from marine plants and animals are used to treat various human ailments.

Using the humble spinach leaf, the team successfully cultured beating human heart cells onto a leaf that's been stripped of its own plant cells.