Sentences with phrase «long dead organisms»
Ancient DNA researchers have succeeded beyond all expectation in retrieving entire genomes from - long dead organisms, and their work is transforming the study of the past, as discussed in Science's special news package and in the video above.
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They can last for decades, perhaps as long as a century, and support a succession of weird and wonderful organisms, some of which only live on dead whales.
It might have been big, complex organic molecules like amino acids, the molecular remains of long - dead martian organisms.
The petrified remains of long - dead organisms do not typically preserve their original colors.
Lab tests involving microbes and a mammoth bone have shown that bacteria can passively soak up the genetic remains of long - dead organisms from the environment and add them to their own genomes.