Sentences with phrase «most organisms»

In most organisms, aging might be due to random mutations in individual cells.

There is a fairly narrow range of pH and nutrients required for most organisms to flourish.

Most organisms do not live long enough for this process to kill the proteins and, ultimately, the organisms themselves.

Although most organisms have evolved to produce only blue - green light, there are exceptions — some animals can see red.

Most organisms use energy from the sun or the earth to grow.

Most organisms pick and choose from 20 naturally occurring amino acids to build their proteins.

Most organisms buried in that rock will eventually dissolve.

In the rest of the oceans quite often it is nitrogen and phosphorus that are what most organisms have a craving for.

In most organisms, evolution proceeds too slowly to be observed directly.

Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.

«Microbes, unlike most organisms, are very much under the control of their environment — and likewise the other way, they very much mediate their environment,» says Cary.

The theory has been difficulty to test as most organisms are either wholly sexual or clonal so can not be compared easily.

look at the enormous amount of sperm that is wasted by most organisms, just to fertilize one egg, or the amount of eggs that are fertilized and then lost especially in fish... and now all this wasted worshiping..

The mere presence of an immunity - inducing protein like Ax21 was not that unusual — the immune systems of most organisms identify a microbial intruder through proteins protruding from its outer membrane.

Global warming is affecting creatures great and small, says biologist D. Liane Cochran - Stafira at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, but most organisms just adapt to the warmer climates without genetic changes.

When most organisms die, they biodegrade and leave little behind.

«If you're in the tropics, most organisms tend to experience very little variation in temperature,» said lead author Michael Dillon, a physiological ecologist.

Most organisms internally generate energy by coupling the addition of electrons to one molecule with their removal from another.

Most organisms decompose before this can happen.

As for most organisms, pteropod populations fluctuate over the short term.

Most organisms on Earth, from bacteria to humans, possess a circadian clock — a biological mechanism that synchronizes activities such as rest or growth to daily...

Viruses and odd virus - like bits of genetic material that lurk within the chromosomes of most organisms, including ourselves, reproduce in a variety of unconventional ways.

It needs to be noted that most actualities, most organisms do not have a great capacity for novelty and consequently, for the most part, repeat the past.

Pyrolobus fumarii is a species of archaea known for its ability to survive at extremely high temperatures that kill most organisms.

Furthermore, unlike most organisms, Nasonia species can be made inter-fertile in the lab by removing bacterial symbionts (Wolbachia) that cause sperm - egg incompatibilities among the species [11], [12].

The naturally occurring prion protein is harmless and can be found in most organisms.

Such stretches of DNA point to genetic regions that are critical to a species» survival and development, as these regions are the product of «selective sweeps» in which all or most organisms in a geographic location come to depend on a certain genetic trait.

Most organisms» colors are produced by pigments that absorb certain wavelengths of light, but not others, to create a color.

This view of the protein makes both biological and evolutionary sense, Campfield says, because starvation is a greater threat to most organisms than are the long - term health effects of obesity.

For example, they revealed that most organisms have two copies of each gene, one from each parent, and that a gene comes in a variety of different forms, or alleles.

Vincent LaBombardi, director of microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, is reassuring, though: «Most organisms that you find are not pathogenic; they're typical environmental bugs that you would not be terribly surprised to find, like corynebacterium species and bacillus species.»

«They can be several thousand base pairs long, whereas in most organisms those regions may be only a couple hundred base pairs long,» he said of the untranslated regions.

Since ethanol occurs in nature whenever yeast happens to find a sugar solution such as overripe fruit, most organisms have evolved some tolerance to ethanol, whereas methanol is toxic.

But mortality of most organisms was higher when exposed to sunlight, moisture and desiccation than when protected,» he explains.

Most organisms — including humans — experience daily rhythms driven by a body clock.

Most organisms that get their energy from photosynthesis use light in the visible range, wavelengths of about 400 to 700 nanometers.

Genomes of most organisms are littered with the carcasses of transposons, says Cédric Feschotte, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

The HIPPO molecular pathway works as a tumor suppressor that helps control organ development and size in most organisms, from fruit flies to humans.

Most organisms are not faced with such big predators, so they don't need to see far away and thus get by with smaller eyes.

«Most organisms that have been found in the absence of light maintain the ability to repair DNA caused by UV light radiation.

A long history of theoretical work, after all, suggests that natural evolutionary forces settled on the genetic code universal to most organisms for good reason.

The clock and biology of Daphnia is very similar to the clock and the biology both in our brains and most organisms.

Although Earth's atmosphere is rich in nitrogen, the inert atmospheric gas is useless to most organisms.

Most organisms on Earth, from bacteria to humans, possesses a circadian clock — a biological mechanism that synchronizes activities such as rest or growth to daily changes in a 24 - hour day.

«Most organisms have an endogenous clock to organize their behavior over the day.