Sentences with phrase «of individual organisms»

The team then investigated the function of individual organisms and predicted interactions.

As in the case of an individual organism, a family has definite growth stages and critical transition periods.

A strain is a group of individual organisms belonging to a species that share one or more distinctive characteristics.

These range from large - scale climate modelling to the molecular - biological analysis of individual organisms.

Given the emphasis on ecosystems or biotic communities that is so central to the land ethic, what is the moral status of the individual organism?

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

«In her research, Hrdy still works within a traditional sociobiological understanding of what is in the female's interest and the focus remains on the reproductive success of the individual organism.»

Only a small percentage of those microbes can be isolated and grown in the lab — so Iverson and the team skipped those steps, sequencing a whole microbial community and proceeding algorithmically to disentangle details of the individual organisms in the community.

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

The second question has in fact two facets: (a) how does it arise in the development of the individual organism during the process of growth from the moment of fertilization of the egg; and (b) how does the egg itself come to get that way — that is to say, how can we conceive of evolution as having «designed» the cell?

Engineered microbes come up short in part because no single organism, no matter how much it is enhanced, can beat the strength of a community of individual organisms, each with its own hydrocarbon - consuming specialty.

When they retrieved the panels, the team counted up the number of individual organisms and examined how much surface area they had colonized.

Such studies should be designed to instill in students an interest in and respect for all living things, as well as an appreciation for the uniqueness, complexity and inherent dignity of each individual organism.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

According to National Geographic, it is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of individual organisms.

The amount of total fat and omega - 3 fatty acids found in different species of fish and shellfish can vary depending on a number of factors including the diet of each species, the season and location of the catch, the age and physiological status of the individual organism, and reproductive cycles.

Not only does a perspective of this sort raise questions for theodicy, it also cuts against a recognition of the intrinsic value of individual organisms.

The most important problem, however, is that of conceptualizing «health» and «wholeness» as functions of the individual organism, when, and by contrast, the Christian tradition has tended to speak of the salvation - health linkage within a larger understanding of the destiny of the whole people of God.

Nature is full of collective patterns that emerge from the behavior of individual organisms.

But under certain conditions, biologists say, an imbalance favoring female births can improve the reproductive success of an individual organism.

RB: The goal of an individual organism is to maintain the form of the individual organism.