We all carry our childhood with us throughout our life... some things are buried deeply... some things we take out to remember frequently... Paula was a survivor, a chameleon... she learned to create new personas that fit the changing circumstances of her life by watching her mother react to life... I thought the author did an excellent job of contrasting Paula and Julian in light of their very different childhood experiences... Paula was a closed up prickly cactus... a dessert survivor... all hard, sharp edges that protected the true inner core of her... Julian was an open succulent... soft, sensitive to his nurturing environment... accepting and giving...
like plants and animals, human beings adapt to their environment and when are we most open to learning?
Multicellular organisms
like plants and animals are complex...
Multicellular organisms
like plants and animals are complex co-operative structures made of many specialized cell types, while a single yeast cell can survive and proliferate without the help of others.
This is the first eukaryote — organisms,
like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
Not exact matches
There is some controversy surrounding the scientific rationale of eating
like our ancient ancestors — i.e.,
animal proteins
and plants, the kinds of foods
and that would be amassed by a hunter - gatherer society.
While startups
like Impossible Foods are focused on developing
plant - based alternatives to the proteins that give meat its flavor, Future Meat Technologies
and Memphis Meats are trying to use
animal cells themselves to grow meat, rather than basically harvesting it from dead
animals.
In To Gaurus, Porphyry's main concern is to establish the
plant -
like nature of the embryo over
and above its
animal -
like qualities.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night
and day,
plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for
animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions,
and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family
and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions
and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel
and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father
and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth
like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate
and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Like any good poet she uses rich imagery -
animal and plants and spices to describe her love,
and the message is there for all who will read: this is not a woman who will be stopped in her pursuit of what she wants.
But
like the dust, gloriously created of God, even more marvelously than
plants and animals.
We are part of the created order
like animals,
plants, insects
and all other creatures.
«Every species of
plant,
animal and even things
like bacteria
and viruses have evolved over the billions of years of Earths existance.»
The
plant is less coordinated as a subject than an
animal and is more
like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.
The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection
and enhancement for the sake of diversity,
like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered
animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»
It makes me feel that the term «vegan» is extremely unfortunate
and misleading, because the term does not emphasize or even signify respect for
animals or living beings or creatures, as it would benefit from doing, but rather uses a derivative form of «vegetable» or «vegetarian», which makes it sound as if the central point is — eating vegetation, i.e.
plants, which makes it sound
like a diet.
Nice Cream,
like its name, is a very nice little ice - cream place that's totally
plant - based, which is
animal - friendly
and eco-friendly.
What if we are able to take these inputs from
plants and apply heating, cooling,
and pressure so they combine just
like animal meat?
Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in
plants or
animals - on an industrial scale, without raising
animals,
and with less impact on the environment.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that terms
like milk, cream
and butter should only be used for
animal products
and must not be used to describe
plant - based foods.
Upon first glance, it looks
like a viable
plant - based protein for those looking to avoid dairy
and other
animal proteins.
Unlike high - fat
animal - based foods or processed sources of fats,
plant - based sources
like seeds, avocado,
and many nuts contain beneficial fats
and protein that our bodies can use for proper thyroid function
and will also keep our hearts healthy too.
Eric Gall, IFOAM EU Policy Manager, added: «It is time for the European Commission to act in line with the precautionary principle to protect the environment
and consumers by confirming that
plants and animals genetically modified with new technologies will at least be regulated
like existing GMOs,
and be subject to rigorous risk assessment, traceability
and labelling, which are cornerstones of EU environmental
and food policies».
With the help of companies
like Tyson, there is hope in shifting our broken food system away from industrial
animal agriculture
and towards a more sustainable one centered around
plant - based proteins instead.
The key is to make sure you're getting plenty of Omega - 3 fats as well from
plant - based foods
like flax
and chia seeds, walnuts
and greens, as well as
animal sources
like wild salmon
and other seafood.
Learn about the different roles of men
and woman, which
plants and animals they relied upon for food, medicine
and tools,
and generally what life was
like in an Ohlone village.
Would you
like to learn more about local
plants and animals, tracking, foraging,
and primitive skills?
Planting seeds through song, Miss Jamie take young kids
and their families on a musical adventure to her «farm», where they learn values
like hard work, exercise,
and being kind to
animals and each other.
The
animals, which have names
like Cream Puff, Orca
and Nugget, will not only remove the
plants immediately but keep them from growing in thicker —
and without the use of chemicals, said their owner, Kim Hunter.
Aside from sterilization, the city also plans to use other non-lethal methods of dealing with the
animals including public education about living with deer to reduce car crashes
and tick - borne illnesses, traffic safety measures
like extra signage
and to add deer - resistive
plantings to the borough.
Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science
and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study
plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells
and tissues integrate mechanics within
plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies
and agricultural technologies.
It also attempted to weed out invasive species
like feral hogs, a major Florida scourge introduced by Spanish explorers in the 1500s (the
animals uproot delicate
plants),
and saltbush, a shrub that grows well in marshy areas but can spread aggressively.
The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species
and the rise of «dispersal barriers» —
like a wall of new development that prevents
plants and animals from migrating.
Then, about 12,600 years ago, steppe
plants like aromatic sagebrush appeared, followed soon after by
animals such as woolly mammoth, bison,
and jackrabbits.
Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes
and ways of life, including the
plant -
like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs
and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths),
and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs
and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods)
and body size (chordates).
«Carbon release back then looked a lot
like human fossil - fuel emissions today, so we might learn a lot about the future from changes in climate,
plants,
and animal communities 55.5 million years ago.»
And, also
like animals,
plants usually seal those wounds up quickly to avoid infection or the loss of important materials.
The system is unique because it allows the algae to simultaneously do photosynthesis
like a
plant while also «eating» carbon
and respiring
like an
animal, said Beyenal.
Researchers have discovered that,
like plants and invertebrate
animals, mammals use the RNA interference (RNAi) process to destroy viruses within their own cells.
They analyzed more than 2000 different mitochondrial genomes from
animals,
plants, fungi,
and protists (
like amoebas).
Regions
like this, which were once part of a war zone, can ironically sometimes become a no - man's - land where
animals and plants flourish free of human interference.
Hunter - gatherers have little or no stored food,
and no concentrated food sources,
like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild
plants and animals they obtain each day.
While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops
like rice
and potatoes, the mix of wild
plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein
and a bettter balance of other nutrients.
Plant immune systems,
like those of humans
and animals, face a difficult balancing act: they must mount responses against ever - evolving pathogens, but they must not overdo it.
Biogenic sources include gas emissions from
plants,
animals, microbes,
and the
like.
Tubulin
and tubulin -
like proteins are highly conserved evolutionarily, found in some bacteria, fungi, higher
plants,
and animals.
Lehmann explains that nutrients from
plant and animal remains —
like nitrogen, phosphate,
and potassium — bind to charcoal or biochar, drastically reducing how much is washed away by the constant rains.
The microbe swims freely through the blood
and feeds off its host, behaving
like the single - celled
animal it is, but it produces enzymes
and lipids thought to be exclusive to
plants.
Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape
plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners
and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native
plants and the native
animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»
If there were a duplicate Earth evolving quietly beside ours, would we observe the emergence of creatures
like ourselves
and of
plants and animals familiar to us, or would the cast of characters be entirely different?
Overfishing, pollution, climate change
and destruction of habitats
like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of
animals and plants which live on land.