Sentences with phrase «metabolized by the organism»

It is simple, easy to use and the nanoparticles employed (silica, iron oxides) can be metabolized by the organism.

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As applied to biology, it means that energy consumed by an organism has to be either converted to a useful form (metabolized), excreted or stored.

With little oxygen in the atmosphere, many organisms derived energy by metabolizing iron instead of oxygen.

Before 2.3 billion years ago, there was little oxygen in the atmosphere but plenty of dissolved iron and many organisms like bacteria derived energy by metabolizing the metal.

Used as a fuel source, it's essentially carbon neutral because photosynthetic organisms survive by metabolizing CO2, a greenhouse gas.

Of the two primary lipid energy sources in corals, triacylglycerol is more easily metabolized than wax esters and thus is commonly exhausted more rapidly by marine organisms during times of stress, such as starvation [51].

He said persistent organic pollutants, called «POPs» for short, are most worrisome because, once consumed, they tend to adhere to organisms» fat cells where they are metabolized by the body and cause health problems.

http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/interactive-carbon-cycle-model/ — According to http://es.carboncycle.aos.wisc.edu/global-carbon-cycle/ (linked from above site), about 50 Gt C / year in the ocean is metabolized by marine organisms.

Some of this exchange is mediated by microbial marine organisms through photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide is converted into organic matter, and respiration, in which the latter is metabolized.