Sentences with phrase «microscopic organism»

But if this microscopic organism evolved from more complex jellyfish down to something with just a few cells, they may call into question the boundary of that definition.

Lacking natural predators, salps can often be found clustering in huge swarms, sometimes numbering in the billions, and eating every microscopic organism in their path — producing huge quantities of waste, in the form of large, fast - sinking fecal «pellets,» which are transported (and sequestered) to the deep sea.

The liquid, a mix of ground corn stocks and a microscopic organism named the Q - Microbe, may just be the fuel of the future, Frey says.

A mesophile is a microscopic organism that is common in beer, wine, cheese and yogurt.

Then a microscopic organism.

Coccidia is a microscopic organism that infects the intestinal tract of dogs and cats.

Contrary to its name, Salmon Poisoning Disease is not caused directly by the fish itself, but rather by a microscopic organism known as Neorickettsia helmintheca that is found in a microscopic fish fluke named Nanophyetus Salmincola.

This microscopic organism lives in the tissues surrounding the claws of many normal, healthy cats.

Dogs infected with Rickettsia rickettsii may have subclinical disease, which means that they show no outward signs of illness even though they are infected with the microscopic organism.

Coccidia are not worms but a single - cell microscopic organism.

One student even added a life jacket to give a microscopic organism better buoyancy.

A parasite is technically defined as a microscopic organism that derives nourishment from its host without benefiting or killing the host.

It has been inspired by the microscopic organism tardigrade to develop the process.

A glassy object snapped into focus — a round disk, serrated on the edge, perforated with dimples — the shell of an aquatic microscopic organism called a diatom.

The microscopic organism — an archaea known as Metallosphaera sedula (seen as a cluster of tiny dots sitting in the middle of the meteoritic dust particle pictured above)-- was originally found in 1989 living in Italy's hot acidic sulfur springs around Vesuvius.

Perhaps the most threatening member of the predatory panel is a rotifer, a microscopic organism capable of eating 200 algal cells per minute.

While this works well on salt, it doesn't really help to weed out other contaminants that might be found in seawater, like dirt or microscopic organisms.

It turns out the microscopic organisms are correlated with dozens of health conditions — everything from irritable bowel syndrome and acne to mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.

I like to think we can apply this same logic to many other things, including a belief that we evolved on this planet from microscopic organisms.

Once upon a time, people laughed at the idea that microscopic organisms would cause disease, disfigurement and death because the things could not be seen.

As the baby grows in utero, they are seeded with trillions of microscopic organisms that they receive from mom, dad, and anyone living in the house.

Layers in the core were dated by analyzing the carbon 14 content of shells left by microscopic organisms called foraminafera.

Two hundred trillion microscopic organisms bacteria, viruses, and fungi are swarming inside you right now.

Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.

As more phosphorus becomes available, microscopic organisms, such as nematodes, tardigrades, rotifers, algae and cyanobacteria, may become more abundant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

«He was the first person in the entire world to see these things, tiny microscopic organisms,» said Yong, commemorating the world's first person to view microbes.

A network of underwater cameras Rapid image capturing of microscopic organisms, such as single - celled protozoa, are adding to the collection of data that researchers are now using to create a picture of the sea change.

There, the native plants» prosperity depends in a large part on microscopic organisms called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

The scientists also studied how environmental factors — such as temperature, water pH, and nutrients — influence the microscopic organisms floating in the ocean.

«Plastics make ideal vessels for colonizing microscopic organisms that could trigger disease if they come into contact with corals,» Lamb said.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

For a summer project, Schaller and Megan Fung, his graduate student and co-author, combed through the cores, looking for the fossils of microscopic organisms called foraminifera, often used as a dating tool.

«We've documented how [extensively] these microscopic organisms are eating into volcanic rock, leaving wormlike tracks that look like someone has drilled their way in,» Staudigel reports.

More resources should be directed to daily demands of security, food supply, and economic growth, critics might argue, rather than a quixotic quest to catalog microscopic organisms.

The smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualize specimens as small as 1 / 200th of a millimeter, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells, cell nuclei, and more.

Short - read sequencing works by splitting the DNA of various microscopic organisms into small pieces that can then be sequenced.

Since it invests its energy in a warm, dull, muggy condition, the penis can turn into a safe place for microscopic organisms and other small scale life forms that can prosper into disagreeable diseases, or in any event, cause an upsetting odor.

These microscopic organisms predominantly live on undigested fiber in our diet and love inulin.

Yeasts are microscopic organisms categorized as fungi, and the most common culprit for gut issues is candida albicans, which is normally in your body, but can cause some serious problems if it is allowed to thrive and multiply (5).

Microscopic organisms — the good gut bacteria, transform food and extend its usefulness.

In fact, there's growing evidence that these tiny, microscopic organisms play an active role in health and disease.

On one two - page spread in Ocean Sunlight, we illustrate the concept of how quickly phytoplankton reproduces by including a series of circles increasing in size, each with a close - up view of these microscopic organisms.

The human body is host to a number of microscopic organisms, such as parasites and mites.

With such fluctuation, our body finds it hard to keep up the balance of essential chemicals, oils and microscopic organisms that our skin needs to stay comfortable, flexible and soft.

As our understanding of the complex role of the microbiome evolves, we are becoming more aware of how critical billions of microscopic organisms are to our pet's health as well as our own.

These microscopic organisms are responsible for essential vitamin production, breakdown of toxins, digestion of plant fiber and prevention of growth of harmful bacteria.

These causes can come from a variety of sources including the environment, food, fleas and microscopic organisms.

Fungi are microscopic organisms related to yeasts, molds, and the more ubiquitous mushroom.

Fungi are microscopic organisms related to yeasts, molds, and mushrooms.