Sentences with phrase «of most organisms»

Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.

Genomes of most organisms are littered with the carcasses of transposons, says Cédric Feschotte, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

But mortality of most organisms was higher when exposed to sunlight, moisture and desiccation than when protected,» he explains.

Viruses and odd virus - like bits of genetic material that lurk within the chromosomes of most organisms, including ourselves, reproduce in a variety of unconventional ways.

Not exact matches

One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

The DNA programming required to create life capable of replicating in even the most simple single celled organism is far far more complex than anything mankind has ever built.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

Furthermore, successful functioning of a cell, organism or brain is contingent upon the recurrence of the most basic physico - chemical processes in their adherence to the laws of nature.

Of course it is possible to concede that the breaking of natural laws, as for instance those of health and hygiene, can incur natural penalties, but surely it surpasses even the most vivid imagination to suppose that one man's disobedience to, and defiance of, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruseOf course it is possible to concede that the breaking of natural laws, as for instance those of health and hygiene, can incur natural penalties, but surely it surpasses even the most vivid imagination to suppose that one man's disobedience to, and defiance of, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruseof natural laws, as for instance those of health and hygiene, can incur natural penalties, but surely it surpasses even the most vivid imagination to suppose that one man's disobedience to, and defiance of, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruseof health and hygiene, can incur natural penalties, but surely it surpasses even the most vivid imagination to suppose that one man's disobedience to, and defiance of, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruseof, his Creator, could actually create deadly organisms and viruses!

Since the family is an interpersonal organism, the most efficient way to help a disturbed member is to increase the health of family interaction.

Only the most otherworldly of Christians will imagine that they have no stake in this new instrument to manipulate the genetic code and to manufacture new organisms whose properties are not completely predictable and whose effects on all of us may turn out to be quite uncontrollable.

As to the, «where are the intermediate forms» argument that has occasionally been put forth in a slightly less ignorant manner, there are a variety of reasons why every intermediate form isn't in the fossil record, the most significant being that of the trillions of organism that have ever lived on the planet, only the extreme minority get fossilized.

DNA / RNA and proteins are by far the most important components of a living organism, carrying out virtually every function in a cell.

Those organisms with the most useful traits for survival had the better chance of passing on those traits to offspring and so on and so on.

Equally remarkable is that the same twenty kinds of amino acids make up most proteins, in organisms all the way from bacteria and viruses to man.

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.

If you are conceding that most marine organisms died, then you face the same founding population genetic diversity constraints limiting their ability to rapidly yield the mult - itude of observable marine vertebrate and invertebrate life in a very short time.

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.

The best treatment of the differences between Whitehead and Bergson of which I am aware is one that acknowledges the full weight of Bergson's influence, and then goes on to ask how and where these ideas were modified in the philosophy of the organism.63 Hartshorne, the author of that article, eventually concludes that «synthetic psychical creativity» is Whitehead's most original insight; one not to be found in Bergson.

Although he initially rejects physicalism because he thinks that a human person is not just an organism and mental changes are not simply physical changes, he concludes «physicalism is the most reasonable theory about the nature of human beings».

Similarly, the aims for most living occasions include no (or few) hybrid prehensions, whereas the aim for a dominant occasion in an animal organism is heavily weighted toward hybrid prehensions of past dominant occasions, which in the case of higher organisms jointly constitute the soul or living person.

Thus, according to the cosmological scheme as laid out by Whitehead in the Philosophy of Organism, a civilized society is metaphysically equivalent to a Society per se in the most basic and essential respects, and therein its generic status as an existent thing is secured.

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

Even in more highly developed organisms, it may be that most of the connection between successive dominant occasions is mediated by the central nervous system.

Of course, most mutations make organisms less well adapted to their environments, explaining the extinction of so many specieOf course, most mutations make organisms less well adapted to their environments, explaining the extinction of so many specieof so many species.

As a matter of fact, most of the difficulties and objections that can be raised against Whitehead's philosophy of organism have their root directly or indirectly in this narrowly conceived identification.

Evolution was not of major interest to most of these biologists, but insofar as they had a theory of it, it was a theory in terms of mutations of individual genes, carried by individual organisms and submitted to natural selection.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

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.

In any event, an awareness that certain polar contrasts (such as subjective - objective, public - private, body - mind, organism - machine, feeling - thought, and perhaps nature - culture) are indissoluble, yet fundamental, is one of the most important aspects of Whitehead's philosophic thought.

Whitehead takes the notion of «organism» as the most profitable one for designating the natural units, but, by making macro-organisms societies of micro-organisms and giving directed activity only to these, he loses the distinctive unity of macro-organisms.

A moment of human experience provides the most accessible organism for our examination.

In short, most personality illness becomes intelligible when understood as a manifestation of a disturbed family organism.

The suggestion is that all societies, including the most democratic ones, are parts of an all - inclusive monarchic society, namely, the whole universe which is ordered by a single ruling member.43 Little examination is required to discern that the single ruling member of the universal organism or society is what Hartshorne understands God to be.

Third, the fact that most genetic mutations occur without reference to the welfare of the mutated organism further supports the casualist view and, therefore, challenges the teleologist.

Rather, he uses the term «empty space» to designate a state of affairs which we do recognize most easily in the apparent void beyond Earth's atmosphere, but which occurs also within animal organisms.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

The higher organisms which most interest us thus can be analyzed into complexly - related levels of social order.

Yet it is clear that it is in this direction — towards a more temporalist biology, utilizing a mathematics more suited to the «sinuousities» (CE 212 - 213) of life — he believed biology could most profitably proceed.20 An adequate answer is suggested, however, by Bergson's statement in Mailer and Memory (quoted above) that levels of consciousness (hence breadths of duration) in each organism are precisely commensurate with the organism's capacity for movement — more precisely, for its capacity to employ a wide behavioral repertoire, coupled with necessity of having to choose between specific acts.

Evolutionary biologists for the most part deal with living organisms as objects and not as subjects, so it is not altogether surprising that they do not take account of the subjective.

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

Most fungal infections are linked to an imbalance of bacteria and fungal organisms in your body.

Paulette, some do mistakingly can their fermented vegetables, not realizing that this destroys most of the beneficial organisms and enzymes.

While these bacteria are considered «beer spoilage organisms» in most common beers styles such as IPAs, stouts and lagers, sour beer producers purposefully use them achieve a desired level of sourness.

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Most species of the mentioned animal groups in Table 4 are beneficial organisms and enforce ecological services.

In as much as you may succeed in preventing most of the infectious organisms, one or two might still penetrate your protective cover.

Yeast is by far the most common type of organism found in a diaper rash.