Sentences with phrase «individual organisms»

A strain is a group of individual organisms belonging to a species that share one or more distinctive characteristics.

They are also made from individual organisms layered on top of one another, so outer layers may provide protection for underlying cells.

This approach has already allowed biologists to test ideas about how individual organisms evolve in response to change.

The ecological study of nature involves, instead, the study of the relations between individual organisms within their natural environments.

We are all very complicated individual organisms with unique responses.

The team then investigated the function of individual organisms and predicted interactions.

Genetic changes can occur through mutation or the transfer of segments of DNA between individual organisms.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

His team has made it possible to catalog variation among individual organisms in a way that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.

The second sort of mechanistic ecologist says the units in the game are not individual organisms at all but communities or ecosystems.

The idea of development seems to have come from biology, where it is used in reference to the process of evolution from a previous and lower (e.g., embryonic) stage to a later, more complex or more perfect one; this development can involve differentiation into individual organisms and their subsequent histories.

Darwin's theory of natural selection identifies in a qualitative way the cause of evolutionary change: natural selection operating through a struggle among individual organisms for reproductive success.

A new approach to genetically engineering individual organisms might help.

Iris Hendriks of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies recently analyzed data from a wide sample of research into how individual organisms respond to increased carbon dioxide in their seawater.

In their new study, the researchers did not isolate individual organisms from the forest soil, but analyzed the whole gene pool found in the earth, the metagenome.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

Because swine reproduction involves tissues / specimens from multiple individual organisms (e.g. boars, sows, fetuses), knowing which animals and which specimens to sample is critical to a successful diagnostic investigation.

Ecophysiological mechanisms underpin individual organism's tolerance to environmental stress, and comprise a broad range of responses defining the absolute tolerance limits of individuals to environmental conditions.

From these, they showed that turbulence from individual organisms aggregates into a much larger turbulent jet in the wake of the migration.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

The first view is favoured by reductionists — those biologists who try to reduce complex behaviour to the activities of simpler elements such as individual organisms or, preferably, their genes.

«Since the 1970s we've been able to genetically engineer individual organisms,» Burt told STAT.

Ecophysiological process - Individual organisms respond to environmental variability, such as climate change, through ecophysiological processes which operate continuously, generally at a microscopic or sub-organ scale.

The long - term experiments are designed to account for complex interactions between individual organisms.

And just as city planners use data about traffic patterns to figure out where to widen roads and how to time stoplights, biologists can use those entwined networks to predict at a molecular level how individual organisms will respond under specific conditions.

Also known as phylogenies, these assemblies of lines and classifications chart biodiversity with varying specificity, from individual organisms to broader taxonomic rankings such as kingdoms and domains.

Given the emphasis on ecosystems or biotic communities that is so central to the land ethic, what is the moral status of the individual organism?

Not only does a perspective of this sort raise questions for theodicy, it also cuts against a recognition of the intrinsic value of individual organisms.

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

The use of the term «purpose» here does not warrant, by itself, McHenry's conclusion that an individual organism alters the environment to «its own purpose,» although the passage does not exclude the presence of purpose in individual organisms.

As Cosmic Life he is an Individual Organism who is striving for his own fulfillment through the perfection of his body - world.

The second question has in fact two facets: (a) how does it arise in the development of the individual organism during the process of growth from the moment of fertilization of the egg; and (b) how does the egg itself come to get that way — that is to say, how can we conceive of evolution as having «designed» the cell?

RB: The goal of an individual organism is to maintain the form of the individual organism.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

The most important problem, however, is that of conceptualizing «health» and «wholeness» as functions of the individual organism, when, and by contrast, the Christian tradition has tended to speak of the salvation - health linkage within a larger understanding of the destiny of the whole people of God.

As in the case of an individual organism, a family has definite growth stages and critical transition periods.

In this book, Whitehead traces the origin of modern natural science as it generalized laws of nature from new observations of aggregates — cannon - balls, stars, grains of sand — and then assumed these laws to apply to individual organisms as well.

While some of the metamorphoses that DO occur in nature, eg caterpillar into butterfly or tadpole into frog, are as spectacular or arguably even more spectacular than your fish to frog morph, the simple fact is that evolution doesn't happen to individual organisms.