Sentences with phrase «of animal body parts»

She often experiments with traditional techniques to create multilayered works, juxtapositioning porcelain casts of animal body parts and garments with found natural and synthetic objects to create large scale installations.

These are approximate descriptions — Kent's paintings seem to contain elements of each, peopled with lugubrious apparitions of animal body parts, most commonly horses.

Not exact matches

Yeah, axolotls and starfish and some other animals spontaneously regrow missing body parts - and they don't even pray (that I know of)!

But in the present situation, where the meat that comes to our table usually represents extended suffering on the part of the animal whose body we eat, we recognize that withdrawal of support from the whole system through vegetarianism is a fully appropriate, if not morally mandated, position.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

If you want to beat down a section of society, put your efforts on the Chinese people for doing nothing to stop the import of slaughtered endangered animals for their body parts in «traditional Chinese medicine».

The parts, however, of the living body are full of other living beings, plants and animals, which, in turn, have each one its entelechy or dominating soul» (Montgomery, p. 267).

For nearly a century, animal agribusiness has forced farm animals into factory - like conditions, subjecting them to unspeakable cruelties: confining them in cages so small they can barely move, overcrowding them in massive warehouses, cutting off parts of their bodies without painkillers and more.

Especially within the pork, cattle, and dairy sectors, amputating parts of the animals» bodies — without pain relief — is the norm, including castration, tail docking, and dehorning.

Know the name of familiar body parts, animals, and objects and laugh when you misname them (such as calling a cow an bunny)

Through a variety of fun, age appropriate, educational hands - on activities, stories, live animal encounters, and adventures on Zoo grounds, Toddler Totes takes you and your child on an investigative exploration of the Zoo's animal collection examining animal body parts and adaptations, such as noses on koalas or tails on tigers.

To make the point, he uses Nicola Hicks's Maquette Head for Crouching Minotaur, a bust of the bull - human hybrid, and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture, Nature Study, which amalgamates human and animal body parts into a confusing, headless whole.

Vogels explains: «We showed the monkeys images of bodies of both animals and human beings, while covering up specific body parts.

But what happens when we can not recognize an animal or a human being on the basis of a face, but only have other body parts to go on?

«We're trying to assess the amount of carbon sequestered in the bodies of these animals as part of the ocean's carbon budget, something that has not been done accurately before,» Robison says.

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.

«As these animals are tiny, just one centimetre long, we needed X-ray images of the soft tissue and the bony parts with micrometric resolution to determine which body parts contribute to sound propagation.»

But the molecules also affect the cells of the animal ingesting the food, by damaging the DNA, proteins, and other critical parts of the cells in their body.

They then looked at the relative size of different parts of each animal's body, their overall sizes, and their habitats.

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.

The ability of animals to regenerate body parts has fascinated scientists since the time of Aristotle.

Raibert showed this could be done, Singh says, by creating a robot that was able to sense its different body parts, just like an animal, without the use of cameras or laser sensors.

Whether it's stopping poaching and illegal trade in body parts from endangered species, identifying perpetrators of out - of - season hunting, or tracking the movement of migratory animals, forensic science is coming to the rescue of wildlife around the globe.

Mammals are among the unlucky — and comparatively few — members of the animal kingdom who have lost the ability to regenerate body parts.

Some animals, such as the axolotl salamander, can regrow new body parts in a process that involves the generation of new cells.

Although algae are always present in natural bodies of water like oceans and rivers, a few types can produce toxins that can seriously harm people, animals, fish, and other parts of the ecosystem.

He's presented research findings based on several analyses he's done that suggest once sucralose levels in a body of water rise above 57 parts per trillion, it's an indicator that the water is experiencing some level of human impact and the onset of eutrophication — nutrient loading that can encourage plant growth and suffocate animal life.

They fitted motion sensors to their trunks, a part of the elephant's body that is rarely idle while the animal is awake.

I asked this question in a more experimentally tractable context: How do body parts of a single animal become different sizes?

Pollen application on all other body parts resulted in relatively low grooming responses of the contaminated area and other body parts as compared to the control animals that had not been contaminated with pollen.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

(The host is something like the tip of the iceberg while the bacteria are like the part of the iceberg that is underwater: Nine out of every 10 cells in plant and animal bodies are bacterial.

The Evolution of Animal Form How do body plans and body parts evolve?

Once attached to the leg, ear or other part of the body of a critter, it can effectively become the animal's «name.»

If you are a biomedical researcher and you want to tweak genes in a particular part of the body in an experimental animal, viral vectors are the way to go.

bilaterians: A clade of animals whode members share: bilateral symmetry, are triploblastic (three tissue layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm), and with HOX genes in one or more clusters with the genes within a cluster arranged in the same order as the body parts they affect.

Replacing animal testing, it can accurately replicate human - organ interactions for weeks at a time and can allow for measuring the effects of drugs on different parts of the body, according to the engineers.

For many centuries, inquiring minds have puzzled over the capabilities of certain worms, amphibians, fish and other animals to regrow limbs and other body parts.

BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Why are some animals able to regenerate the form and function of almost any body part?

Which animal a lab uses will depend on how closely parts of its body or chemical - signaling systems match those in people.

... and that means that the condensed animal versions of those body parts, AKA gelatin, is high in the exact amino acids you need to make collagen.

It is of note that animals fed regular coconut oil have less cholesterol deposited in their livers and other parts of their bodies.

it's unfortunate that all of the rats used in the quoted study were killed as part of the experiment: «At different 175 time intervals 176 between 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 6 and 24 h after ingestion, the animal was euthanized with 177 Nembutal ® (100 mg / kg body weight of the animal) and 5 ml of blood specimens 178 were collected.»

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.

Research with animals has suggested that raspberries have have the potential to inhibit cancer cell proliferation and tumor formation in various parts of the body, including the colon.

In calorie restricted animals and in those on my diet, on the other hand, free T3 and body temperature are reduced as part and parcel of a shift in genetic expression towards maintenance, repair, and longevity, in the same way that the temperature of your car is reduced when it is functioning best; when it is getting the best mileage, has the best acceleration, and where the engine will live longest.

Mention is made of stolen animal body parts.

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