Sentences with phrase «little living organism»

In this case, those little living organism - kefir grains consume the sugar and convert it to gut friendly bacteria.

Not exact matches

But these little cinnamon monstrosities are essentially icing - stuffed dough Gushers and should not be served to humans or any living organism.

If you look at the curent state of living organisms there is little question that the species are devolving rather than evolving.

Nasa is interested in these organisms because they survive on very little energy, suggesting the exciting prospect of modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

There is little doubt that disparity — that is, the range of different organism «designs» or «ways of life» — rose sharply in the early Cambrian.

· Follow two cavers as they search for extreme living organisms in the ice caves of Greenland, the underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the earth caves of the Little Grand Canyon in the film Journey Into Amazing Caves.

Aside from myriad practical applications, these organisms could exemplify the kinds of life that exist in environments where little or no oxygen exists, such as the deep ocean or under the Martian surface.

NASA is also interested in things that live deep underground because such organisms often survive on very little energy and they may suggest modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

With feeding arms «adapted to grope for small organisms living in anoxic mud» and a cutting beak «appropriate for an opportunistic scavenger», the animal expends little energy in hunting and feeding.

We know very little about the Ediacaran organisms that lived on Earth before true animals, but scans are now revealing what they looked like on the inside

Without fossils or DNA preserved from organisms living during this period, scientists have had little data to work from.

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

We know life evolved in the oceans... but many of the organisms we studied are uncharacterized, little known to science, and we have a lot of work to do understand where these organisms fit in in our understanding of life.»

According to Heidinger, research in many organisms has shown that offspring produced by older parents often do not live as long, but little is known about why that occurs.

«We know very little about deep - sea organisms and their life - cycle patterns, in particular in the water column of the deep sea,» Hoving says.

Most adult cells have little to no telomerase activity, and the progressive shortening of their telomeres serves as a kind of molecular clock that limits the cells» — and, some believe, an organism's — life span.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

Calvin is the name given to the film's antagonist, a deadly little organism (and the first sign of life discovered on Mars) that grows larger and more lethal over the course of the story.

Jordan makes the movies Terry Gilliam never quite made until Tideland; far from the compassionate fare many label it, his oeuvre is comprised of harsh little ditties about the voraciousness of the social organism and the bites it takes out of individuals living perpendicular to the absolute mean.

The Borg is a collection of species that have been «assimilated» into cybernetic organisms that live as mentally linked drones in a hive collective, techno - addicts made a little palatable by a work ethic and a dash of S&M.

These nasty little organisms live and reproduce in their host, in this case your cat, and derive their nourishment from them.

In fact, viruses are on the border between living and non-living; they require another organism to reproduce and thrive; otherwise they are little more than a chemical compound with the potential to alter the metabolism of their hosts.

We have an unknown climate sensitivity which has some how kept life on earth going for 2 billion years through extremes but is now going to roll over and die because of a little Co2 burp by an organism that has only been around 100,000 years.

A science teacher pointed out to me that those little organisms that live near the deep ocean vents will no doubt carry on living here.)