Sentences with phrase «instead on algae»

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Instead, sloths outsmart predators by relying on camouflage, such as algae that grows on their fur.

Quagga and zebra mussels shun toxin - producing Microcystis cyanobacteria and feed instead on other species of phytoplankton at the base of the lake's food chain, including algae.

Instead, the company Solazyme simply grows its algae in the dark, on a sugar diet.

Instead eyes are on a handful of high - tech labs around the U.S. that are perfecting ways to make the equivalent of gasoline and diesel from the lowest life - forms on the totem pole: yeast, algae and bacteria.

Its method also relies on natural sunlight, but with a twist: instead of moving the sunlight to the algae, GreenFuel rotates the algae in and out of the sunlight, a process called photomodulation, explains GreenFuel co-founder Isaac Berzin.

But organisms from humans to algae also have another clock that doesn't rely on rhythmic gene expression to keep time, but instead uses the rise and fall of the reactive oxygen molecules that are formed as natural byproducts of metabolism.

Imagine taking a 31 - year sleep and then instead of a hot cup of coffee when you wake up, all you're given is a sip of water and a bit of algae to munch on.