Sentences with phrase «in plant reproduction»

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At Key Stage 2 (Age 7 + to 11, Years 4 to 6) schools have to teach the following: Growth and reproduction; the main stages of the human life cycle; reproduction; the parts of the flower [for example, stigma, stamen, petal, sepal] and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation, seed dispersal and germination.»

Fat cushions our organs and helps control growth, immune function, reproduction and metabolism; fat transports vitamins A, D, E, and K, the so - called fat - soluble vitamins, throughout our bloodstream; and it also boosts the body's ability to absorb potentially health - enhancing carotenoids, natural pigments found in plants.

The formation of the seed completes the process of reproduction in plants (started with the development of flowers and pollination), with the embryo developed from the zygote and the seed coat from the integuments of the ovule.

The first experiment, using pines, was designed to find out whether high levels of UV - B could cause malformed pollen grains in today's seed plants similar to those described by Foster, and whether these malformations could affect reproduction.

Pollination is needed for reproduction in flowering plants.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Contributors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fate of animal and plant groups in which sexual reproduction has been lost.

While CO2 stimulates reproduction and growth in plants, ozone has a negative impact on plant growth, the authors point out.

Dr Crispin Jordan, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.&Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.&plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.»

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

In response, the pollinator population would decline, lowering plant reproduction.

In the PLOS ONE article, the researchers show that the male reproduction organs of tomato plants — the stamen, made up of a filament with an anther — become less virile under continuous high temperatures of 32 or 34 degrees Celsius.

Some focused on the growth, reproduction and other properties of microbes, plants and animals in space.

The dodo and the Carolina parakeet were important dispersers of seeds, and their loss has permanently affected forest structure in their habitats; rare insects are often highly specific pollinators whose loss affects the reproduction and survival of other plants.

In this gorgeous documentary, Michael Pollan posits that if reproduction represents the ultimate biological goal, then plants such as the apple and the potato that induce humans to cultivate them worldwide are the true victors.

That study showed how removing a bumblebee species disrupted floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction.

This research reveals a new type of cell fusion that is initiated to destroy a particular cell, and enlightens the evolution of sexual reproduction in flowering plants.

These changes had direct implications for plant reproduction: Larkspurs produced about one - third fewer seeds when one of the bumblebee species was removed, compared to the larkspurs in the control groups.

The results show how reduced competition among pollinators disrupts floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction.

Sexual reproduction in flowering plants occurs by fertilization of the female gamete (a reproductive cell) by a male gamete.

By contrast, liana removal increased reproduction in palms and understory plants only slightly.

The original stuff is botanical and then in the making of The Origin, you know, [the] making of his theory, plants are interwoven with other organisms, obviously something — you know, he would take as examples where they are important, but there are certain botanical issues that are of key importance and one of them has to do with reproduction.

Kohn: Well, what I mean is that our common understanding today, the flower is involved in reproduction and involves pollen traveling from one plant to another often brought by a pollinator like you know, an insect, a butterfly or a bee and that is an organ.

For instance, «plants that like their pollinators to be pretty loyal» could see declines in reproduction, says ecologist Laura Burkle of Montana State University, Bozeman.

So that is the Silicus genus and those are truly amazing, and I recommend anyone who is up in [the] Boston area to visit the Harvard Natural History Museum, and I think, they are made by Bulgarian or Hungarian brothers in the early 1900 [s], and theye are amazing reproductions; I mean, if you did not let a botanist touch them and you put them next to the same species of living plant, I bet that a lot of them could not tell the difference because they are down to the minutest part; they are incredibly accurate.

Yet while some animal and plant species can reproduce without sex, such as komodo dragons, starfish and bananas, sex is still the dominant mode of reproduction in the natural world.

Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.

Since nematodes are the only known organisms to use ascarosides, «we don't have to be afraid of interfering with similar biochemistry in animals, plants or humans,» Schroeder said, as researchers seek to identify species - specific ascaroside molecules that may enable novel approaches to deter or disrupt the survival or reproduction of parasitic worms.

«This will be a crucial step in our quest to develop tools to manipulate plant reproduction in our favor and improve crop productivity.»

«Our goal is to use comparative genomics approaches to fill in gaps in our understanding of how plant reproduction works and to define the aspects of the mechanisms we've discovered so far that are either ancient or new innovations.»

These patterns strongly resemble the biological clustering observed in modern plants, and suggest a dual mode of reproduction: the «grandparents» being the product of ejected waterborne propagules, while the «parents» and «children» grew from «runners» sent out by the older generation, like strawberry plants.

However, sexual reproduction in higher eukaryotes is more complex than meiosis alone, and has evolved independently in plants and animals.

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In chap 1 of China study the'error» with alpha f protein in Philippino kids and the reproduction in rat studies, I interpret as «Cancer cells need animal protein to grow» If u stop it, they shrink.Ok i am not a scientist but I proposed this to 7 advanced cancer patients 2 of whom were in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating»In chap 1 of China study the'error» with alpha f protein in Philippino kids and the reproduction in rat studies, I interpret as «Cancer cells need animal protein to grow» If u stop it, they shrink.Ok i am not a scientist but I proposed this to 7 advanced cancer patients 2 of whom were in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating»in Philippino kids and the reproduction in rat studies, I interpret as «Cancer cells need animal protein to grow» If u stop it, they shrink.Ok i am not a scientist but I proposed this to 7 advanced cancer patients 2 of whom were in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating»in rat studies, I interpret as «Cancer cells need animal protein to grow» If u stop it, they shrink.Ok i am not a scientist but I proposed this to 7 advanced cancer patients 2 of whom were in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating»in «palliative stage > All 6 are doing VERY WELL, the oncologists do not understand it.I tell them «plant based diet, no cheating».

Phenolics are phytochemical compounds in plants that protect them from the insults of nature while assisting with essential functions of reproduction and healthy growth.

Flavonoids are plant secondary metabolites, this means that they are not directly involved in the growth, development, or reproduction of a plant.

Reishi spores are a part of the reproduction process of the reishi mushroom and play a similar role as seeds and pollen in plants.

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A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at reproduction in flowering plants.

3 Loop games on genetic techniques • Cloning techniques - cloning in plants and animals (microprogation, cuttings, asexual reproduction, embryo splitting, reproductive cloning) • Reproductive cloning - detail of steps involved • Genetic engineering - detail of steps involved Each loop games consists of 21 cards and comes in 2 different colours.

Lewitt fabricated a series of reproductions of these lamps from pure compressed fuel ash that was scrubbed from power plant smoke stacks, and displayed both originals and reproductions in a section of the Venetian Arsenale in which the area's power turbines had been housed until the construction of the site in Marghera.

In «Faserland» the bestseller by Christian Kracht, the sincerest tears are shed over the loss of a best friend, the greatest fear is the fear of a homosexual rape and the deepest wish is for a pure — and absent — woman with which to create a reproduction plant for the exalted.

«We really need to know the mechanisms before we can establish any cause and effect,» said Terry Root, a Stanford University biologist who last month published a paper linking changes in timing of migration, and reproduction in hundreds of plant and animal species, to global warming.

In particular, many of the plant populations predicted to persist in the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinctioIn particular, many of the plant populations predicted to persist in the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinctioin the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinction.

In this and subsequent works, he described plants and animals on the basis of physical appearance and method of reproduction.

Lehigh Valley Zoo Schnecksville, PA Jan 2017 — Dec 2017 • Provided appropriate care, feeding, and reproduction services to wild and exotic animals • Cleaned animal fields • Trimmed and watered plants, replaced nesting and bedding material in keeping instructions • Watched over animals for indications of illness, injuries or other strange conditions • Measured and prepared food items for pets Maintained cleanliness conditions around feeding areas