Sentences with phrase «much smaller organisms»

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

Not exact matches

«Incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical laws... play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living organism.

With a total of 531,000 bases, the new organism's genome isn't much smaller than that of M. genitalium, with 600,000 bases.

Swarming among unicellular organisms often precedes sexual reproduction because it rapidly increases population density in a small area, whereas it would be much rarer for two choanoflagellates to spontaneously encounter each other and mate under normal conditions.

Many have compared the gathering to the 1975 gathering in Asilomar, California, where a small group of biologists debated then - new but much cruder techniques for recombining DNA sequences and famously called for a moratorium on such work until concerns over the accidental release of genetically modified organisms were resolved.

We can search for evidence of cells preserved in rocks, or at a much smaller scale: compounds called biosignatures are molecular fossils, specific compounds that give some indication of the organisms that created them.

This knowledge, which will only be rapidly obtainable in the model organisms, will allow the reduction of most of the approximately 70,000 individual genes encoded by the human genome into a much smaller number of multicomponent, core processes of known biochemical function.

«I saw a poetic contradiction in the notion that some of the smallest organisms in the world were reclaiming the instruments of much larger organisms.