Sentences with phrase «land plant family»

Its familial classification, Fabaceae, is the third - largest land plant family and counts the Pacific pea among its members.

Soy, or Glycine max, is a member of the Fabaceae family, also known as the Leguminosae family, which includes approximately 19,400 species, making it the third largest land plant family.

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«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.

Having planted «a Hispanic garden in a foreign land,» away from her native Cuba, she values what she calls the flowers of faith — family commitment, and strength to struggle in her mother's «bouquet» which help her combat rootlessness.

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

Bel Soley agronomists — scientists who specialize in soil quality, land cultivation, and crop production — distribute nursery - grown «starter» pepper plants to 1/4 — 1/2 acre family owned farms.

The Brazil Family then planted their roots on this idyllic land, flanked by beautiful Laguna Lake.

Throughout the tropics, families typically cultivate it for their own consumption on small parcels of land, although in Asia and in parts of Latin America the plant is also grown commercially for use in animal feed and starch - based products.

A mysterious deep - ocean seaweed diverged from the rest of the green - plant family around 540 million years ago, developing a large body with a complex structure independently from all other sea or land plants.

The exact configuration of the base of the plant family tree doesn't matter to dating the first land plants, Donoghue and his colleagues report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The world - class plant will manufacture the first family of premium, advanced technology engines, Ingenium, to be entirely designed and built in - house by Jaguar Land Rover for exclusive use in the company's future vehicles.

Land so flat and fertile and unencumbered that a family could plant as soon as they got there and harvest their first season.

[107] Further back, it was agricultural land, planted in geraniums, other flowers and vegetables by the Takahashi family since 1924.

Because population change (resulting from educating girls and family planning), plant - rich diet, and reduced food waste are the principal drivers of this effect, Drawdown allocates the resulting reduction in emissions from land clearing to these solutions.

The project has created one local plant manager job and provides a farmable land for the Pileski family farm that leases the land over the mine and on which the project is located.

Over 800,000 students, families, lawmakers and government officials came out to volunteer to plant the saplings along designates spots along country roads, highways, railroads, and forest lands.

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

The Murphy family have an affinity with nature, they take great pride in their role as custodians of the land, having planted over 200,000 trees.

Trees for the Future works to plant trees in sub-Saharan Africa where the land is poor and farming families are starving.