Sentences with phrase «most other organisms»

If this trend continues, in 50 years the sea ice could disappear entirely during summers — possibly wiping out ice algae and most other organisms farther up the food chain.

Humans, and most other organisms, have evolved to favor anabolism, especially when times get tough.

Like most other organisms, fish have a low probability of leaving a fossil record.

Organic growers have used Bt proteins in sprays for decades because they kill certain pests but are not toxic to people and most other organisms.

Like most other organisms, we have an internal clock that adapts to day and night — a cycle called circadian, from the Latin words circa meaning «around» and dies meaning «day.»

But the discovery of genetic identities between human cells and those of most other organisms does not negate the distinctiveness of human beings.

Not exact matches

Unlike most other philosophers of science, he does not immediately cast scorn on the likes of William Dembski and Michael Behe, who have focused on the apparent design of cells and organisms.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

While it is true that very suggestive metaphysical arguments can be drawn from the reality of form, the intelligibility of the universe, consciousness, the laws of physics, or (most importantly) ontological contingency, the mere biological complexity of this or that organism can never amount to an irrefutable proof of anything other than the incalculable complexity of that organism's phylogenic antecedents.

The philosophy of organism culminates in a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal world.

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

According to the study, most of the highly toxic benzene and toluene in the oil were transported away in deep currents, along with other entrapped petroleum compounds that affected organisms on and near the sea floor.

In other cases, different concentrations of morphogen elicit different responses, and it is this type of gradient that is most important for providing an increase in the complexity of the developing organism.

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

In most vertebrates, digestion is a multi-stage process in the digestive system, following ingestion of the raw materials, most often other organisms.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

They can also compare E. coli's genetic makeup with that of some of the other microorganisms sequenced so far — bakers» yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium responsible for most cases of intestinal ulcers; and Methanococcus thermoautotrophicum, an organism that thrives in hot springs, for example.

He also believes the technique will work reasonably well for studying the structure and function of proteins in most other model organisms, including laboratory mice.

But remember, most of our antibiotics come from organisms that live in the dirt, like molds and even other bacteria.

There's a lot of attention right now on how neurons fire and interact with each other, but the truth is, we don't even understand how a brain develops — even in the most simple of organisms like C. elegans, a worm with only 300 brain cells.

(Most of the research is still being done on mice and other organisms because human tests will take decades to complete.)

«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.

Glover expressed concerns about «the polarization of argument» with GM organisms (GMOs) and other controversial topics, but she clearly hadn't helped matters in 2013 when she discussed GMOs at a conference in Scotland, most controversially calling opposition to the technology «a form of madness.»

It will enable scientists working on their desktops to create various mutants and introduce genes from other organisms to see which would be most relevant for work on a new antibiotic, for example.

But most bacteria, alga, and some fish, marsupials, and other organisms have an additional safety device to quickly fix the most common form of UV - induced damage.

It also lacks the energy - generating mitochondria present in most living things and digests food with fermentation enzymes found only in bacteria and other very simple single - celled organisms.

Parker agrees, adding that the strategic use of ants by other species is an underexplored area of biology: «This is evolution at its most extreme: the more we look, the more these creatures force us to modify our ideas of how organisms make a living.»

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

Most animals, plants and other organisms possess a broad range of traits, or features.

Most bacteria are free - living, but some live as partners (symbionts) within other organisms.

In addition to finding vaccine candidates, «the most striking feature of N. meningitidis from a genome perspective is that there are more contingency genes than any other bacterium or organism studied so far,» says Hervé Tettelin, leader of the N. meningitidis sequencing project at TIGR.

Larger organisms, such as some types of crabs and fishes, are most likely opportunistic feeders living on other living or dead vent organisms.

«In addition to marine testing, we assessed how well the adsorbent attracted uranium versus other elements, adsorbent durability, whether buildup of marine organisms might impact adsorbent capacity, and we demonstrated that most of the adsorbent materials are not toxic.

A well - known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg / Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren't all coherent either).

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a new study of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion of regeneration.

The customers of biotechnology companies are farmers (whose customers are food processing corporations etc.), and most of them don't care about the end consumer either: they want a product that can fight (kill) insects, as well as other natural organisms — called names like weeds etc..

Most restaurant foods come cooked in soybean oil; genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remain a concern; and many places use sugary sauces, MSG, gluten - containing spices, and other food intolerances in even healthy - sounding dishes.

Even though the most common organism to cause UTIs in dogs is Escherichia coli, there are several other organisms that may be involved.

Because of «bioaccumulation» (mercury collects over time in organisms» bodies, including human bodies) and «biomagnification» (concentration increases as animals eat other animals) we are most exposed through eating animal products.

Greater temperature control makes for tough choices, however; most notably, how to dial in a temperature suitable for native species, introduced recreational fish and myriad other aquatic organisms.

An inhospitable cauldron of dense salty water and methane proves lethal for most, but the organisms that survive could resemble life on other planets.

Salting meat preserves the meat because the salt draws water out of the meat and creates an environment that is inhospitable to most bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic organisms.