Sentences with phrase «most animal body»

Not exact matches

The most obvious indicator for common descent in the animal kingdom is body plan.

For most of us at body + soul that has not been the case, thanks to our production manager, Mandy Stone, who cooks the best vegan food using no animal products whatsoever, not even milk, eggs, or butter we've ever tasted.

In the pork industry, most mother pigs are confined day and night during their four - month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals» bodies, preventing them from even turning around.

Most animals have natural body clocks that run closer to the 24 - hour day - night cycle, plus or minus a couple hours, and light helps reset the body's timing each day.

Turtles are often described as evolutionary monsters, with a unique body plan and a shell that is considered to be one of the most intriguing structures in the animal kingdom.

In humans, as in most animal species, the state of the female body is very important for the success of reproduction.

Flammang agrees, saying what's most exciting about this is that it really underlines the idea that there is a vertebrate body plan that allows for changes that result in different kinds of animals, adding that the work «really unlocks a way of understanding the differences between organisms.»

Anatomy confirms what behavior reveals: Octopuses and cuttlefish have larger brains, relative to body weight, than most fish and reptiles, larger on average than any animals save birds and mammals.

Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.

«Among other proteins, we managed to find collagen, one of the most important proteins in the bodies of animals in general, and in vertebrates in particular.»

Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome — the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.

So one afternoon he sedated an affable dog named Rocky, removed part of the animal's aorta, and replaced it with a piece of its small intestine, the part of the body that most resembled the tubular structure of Rocky's blood vessels.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

In humans and most of the higher animals, closing off air - filled lungs with this valve mechanism also stabilizes the body during muscular exertion, including evacuation of the bowels.

For the first time, researchers have investigated the cheetah's extraordinary sensory abilities by analyzing the speedy animal's inner ear, an organ that is essential for maintaining body balance and adapting head posture during movement in most vertebrates.

The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species and specialized skin glands in monotremes that seep or ooze milk; the presence of hair or fur; specialized teeth; three minute bones within the ear; the presence of a neocortex region in the brain; and endothermic or «warm - blooded» bodies.

James Witts said: «Most fossils are formed in marine environments, where it is easy for sediment to accumulate rapidly and bury parts of animals, such as bones, or bodies of creatures with a hard shell.

Prior to this period, most animal life on Earth consisted of enigmatic soft - bodied creatures that resembled algae or jellyfish.

In most animals, nutrition involves components specialized in the regulation of nutritional supply and demand (in most animals, for example, the brain controls the needs of the body cells).

One case where the ordering of genes on a chromosome is important to their function is that of the Hox genes, which define the body patterns of most types of animals during development.

Perhaps most important, this molecular had a good half - life in animals, so it could be used to answer the 60 - year - old question of what happens when you slow down the natural degradation of insulin in the body.»

Their body form looks simple, yet their swimming ability is the most economical in the animal kingdom.

«While preferred body temperature is a good index of when most behaviors are affected by temperature, it is not a good representation of the biology of the animals because they are actually active cooler and warmer than their preferred temperature,» said Leal.

Most convincing of all, Knight believes, is that when samples of gut bacteria from the jet - lagged humans were transplanted into healthy mice, the animals gained weight, showed increased blood sugar, and had a higher body fat content compared with animals given the bacteria of participants before their flight.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

Not only were Miconazole and clobetasol able to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells into mature oligodendrocytes, most importantly, these drugs stimulated the formation of new insulation (myelin) and reversed disease severity in animal models of MS.. While not all adult tissues in our body contain stem cells, this approach may change the way MS is managed.

But when most people talk about fossils, they mean a specific subsection of this group — fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has been preserved, while the actual organic matter of its body is gone.

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»

This is also when we first see evidence for predation, the ability to move around and most of the animal body plans we would recognize today.

Saturated fats, especially those from pastured animals and poultry, are most important in the diet to promote a happy, healthy brain and body.

But the real concentration is in the liver, which makes sense because that's where the liver is stored — principally in the brain, in the liver and the kidney of most animal's bodies.

Most plant foods today are loaded with pesticides and many components in animal products support the body's detoxification system — such as iron in meat, amino acids in bone broths, vitamin A in liver and saturated fat in butter.

Remember, one of the most important fats your body needs for optimal health is animal - based omega - 3.

Collagen is the protein that is most abundant in our bodies (and those of the animals we consume).

if stearic acid in cacao is healthy why would stearic acid in lard harm us, plants and animals produce the most saturated fat that will melt at their body temperatures, to reduce oxidative stress.

As you may recall from our previous post on mTOR, the main 3 nutrient sensors of the human body, which is similar to most animals are

Trace Minerals — Your body needs trace amounts of several types of minerals, most of which can be found in animal meats.

Animal flesh has the MOST heavy metals and does not contain compounds to prevent our bodies from holding onto them.

Here are some of the facts about proteins: protein is essential to a healthy heart and a healthy body; animal sources of protein including eggs are «better» for you nutritionally since they contain all of the essential amino acids; as with most nutrients and vitamins, both too much and too little protein have detrimental effects on the body; and, protein can not be «stocked» up like fat but must be eaten daily.

Not only are we (as a society) eating 67 % of our total calories from corn, soy, and wheat... but because of the economics involved (specifically with cheap corn and soy) we are also feeding most of our farm animals corn and soy now too... again amplifying the amount of corn and soy that passes through the food chain and (from a biochemical standpoint) ends up in our bodies.

Scientists gave several compounds derived from holy basil, most known and a few newly identified, to laboratory animals in doses of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

High «efficiency of utilization» occurs with animal protein because the proportion of amino acids (the building blocks of protein) in animal muscle most closely match the proportion of amino acids needed to synthesize protein in our own bodies.

Chondroitin comes from animal cartilage which is why bone broth is one of the most effective ways for your body to absorb its helpful nutrients.

Salt is also an absolutely essential part of both human and animal life due to the sodium that is contains, which is used to maintain some of the body's most integral functions including regulating fluid in blood cells and helping to send information to nerves and muscles.

It wreaks havoc in the body, and most of us are suffering from it due to our highly acidic diets (ie.diets filled with junk foods, refined sugars and animal products — especially dairy), some of these animal products are worse than others, but most are highly flammatory.

They can, however, sometimes be chemically similar to the hormones in an animal's body, with horses being the most common.

This also likely has something to do with caloric density, since most of the animal foods are absorbed by our bodies.

In this second chart, you'll notice that even though most of our animal foods contain vitamin A in its retinoid form (as shown by those numbers in the fourth column which is labeled, «Retinol (mcg RE),» their carotenoid content is very low (or absent), giving our body very little to work with if it wanted to convert carotenoids into retinoids.

While animal protein tends to be a complete protein, meaning it has all the amino acids that your body needs, most plant - based foods do not.

Studies show that the BPA in most people's body exceeds the amount that suppresses sperm production or causes chromosomal damage to the eggs of animals.