Sentences with phrase «microbial life form»
Even if Mars ever supported microbial life form (s), that does not mean it could support or even could have ever supported humanlike life form.
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Prebiotic fibers are the substrate on which gut flora (microbial life forms) feed, producing a variety of beneficial by - products, principally short - chain fatty acids.
Not exact matches
Stefanie Lutz, a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and lead author of the study, said: «Our three - week field trip revealed a «microbial garden» of life forms flourishing in this cold environment, including snow algae, bacteria, fungi and even invertebrates.
If there were multiple origins of life on Earth, the microbial descendants of another genesis could be all around us, forming a possible shadow biosphere.
«If there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years — if it is enough like our form of life.
The novel techniques developed by Louca and his colleagues will allow scientists around the world to better understand the processes that shape microbial communities, which form the basis of life on Earth.
Newly identified volcanoes may have provided the perfect environment for microbial life - forms to thrive
Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.
The first traces of life appear in the fossil record around 3.5 billion years ago in the form of microbial mounds in Western Australia known as stromatolites.
More recently, however, microbial life found around hydrothermal vent ecosystems (i.e., the «Lost City» found in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is cooler than those found at «black smokers») indicate that Carbon - 13 is not selected against Carbon - 12 in hydrogen - rich environments where microbial life is starved of carbon, essentially in the form of carbon dioxide (Alexander S. Bradley, Scientific American, December 2009: pp. 62 - 67).
It is known that Mars, well over 3.5 billion years ago, may have harboured primitive microbial - life forms, when flowing water and volcanoes promoted the formation of hot springs.
By «complex life,» the researchers don't mean necessarily technologically advanced or even highly intelligent life, but rather life forms that are above the microbial level and form stable food chains like those found in ecosystems on Earth.
Dr. Cathy: Dys means ill or bad, biosis refers to form of life, in this case bacteria and fungi (flora and fauna, AKA microbials); therefore, it is bacterial and / or yeast overgrowth.
The piece, «Microbial Life,» appears in «Energy: Made in Form,» a new art exhibition opening Thursday at the San Diego State University Downtown Gallery.
This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but it describes the amazing life - cycles of microbial organisms that form the biological soil crusts (BSCs) of Earth's deserts.
A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts — living ground cover formed by microbial communities — to reveal how long - dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.