Sentences with phrase «of airborne spores»

Spore - bearing plants Like modern mosses and ferns, these plants depended on an explosion of airborne spores (rather than pollen) to procreate.

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The Vicks ® Air Purifier offers a four - stage HEPA filtration system that helps capture airborne particles such as dust, pollen, smoke, mold spores, and pet dander, to help keep your family from breathing in all of those things you want to keep out.

Scientists capture airborne spores and pollen using spore traps made of tape coated with petroleum jelly.

The autumn fog brings airborne mold spores that latch on to the Sémillon grapes and break the fruits» skin, beginning a process of dehydration that allows sugars to concentrate in the grapes.

In mice, when white blood cells in the lungs engulf spores of a common airborne fungus, these immune cells release an enzyme that sends the fungal cells into programmed cell death.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

Perhaps the most unique element of this car's onboard technology, Plasmacluster works by artificially creating positive and negative ions that seek out and surround harmful airborne substances, such as mold spores, microbes, fungi, odor, germs, and bacteria.

Once airborne, these spores can be inhaled and settle into the deep portions of the lungs.