Sentences with phrase «of plant and animal»

Dozens of plant and animal species you see here are those you won't be able to see anywhere else in the world.

The Gaviota Coast is one of the few remaining sections of undeveloped, open coastline in California, and is home to more than 1500 species of plant and animal life.

In addition to being home to an abundance of plant and animal life, coral reefs are responsible for generating the white sand on many of Hawaii's stunning beaches and help to create the waves at famous surf breaks.

· Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

The reovirus belongs to the Reoviridae family, which is a small, yet mighty, group of plant and animal viruses.

Food of plant and animal origin contain vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins that become muscle and bone, nourish organs, and provide energy for daily living.

In dramatic words and paintings, this fascinating story describes the trillion - ton asteroid that probably struck Earth 65 million years ago, causing a huge dust cloud that blocked the sun and destroyed a number of plant and animal species, including dinosaurs.

Make Three - Dimensional Plant and Animal Cell Models A hands - on activity for visual and tactile learners demonstrates the 3 - D characteristics of cells while reinforcing students» knowledge of plant and animal cell structure.

A range of plant and animal life cycles are included, such as a cherry tomato plant, pear tree, ladybird, frog, dog, chicken and human!

Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.

Second is the research on different populations or population subgroups that eat different mixtures of plant and animal foods.

The definition will allow for the inclusion of these materials and will provide a viable avenue to synthesize specific oligosaccharides and polysaccharides that are part of plant and animal tissues.

«phytate is found in beans, grains, nuts, and seeds, the average daily intake of phytate in vegetarian diets is about twice that of those eating mixed diets of plant and animal foods.»

Pesticides and other toxins will be present in mother's milk if they are present in the diet, so all care should be taken to consume organic foods of both plant and animal origin during pregnancy and lactation.

But people generally find food most palatable when there is a mix of plant and animal foods.

Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) are produced by the body and are found in fats of both plant and animal origin.

Your goal should be a diet with enough — but not too much — high - quality protein from a variety of plant and animal sources.

Some cultures, such as the Inuit of the arctic and several tribes in Africa, thrived in stellar health on almost an entirely animal - based diet, and other cultures around the world thrived on almost an entirely plant - based diet... But all cultures generally had some mixture of plant and animal foods, even if the amount of animal food was small in some cultures, or the amount of plant food was small in other cultures.

Pure PC or Phosphatidyl Choline is an essential component of the cellular membranes of plant and animal cells, needed for membrane integrity, structure, and function.

Organic acids such as humic and fulvic acid are some of the components resulting from this natural process of decay of plant and animal matter.

Furthermore, the types of plant and animal foods that together comprise the macronutrient composition of hunter - gatherer diets are substantially different from those commonly consumed by Westernized societies.

You will learn about the difference of plant and animal protein sources, protein amounts, protein needs, protein dangers, and bust through the myths of complete versus incomplete protein.

While nearly all animal foods contain all the essential amino acids, most plants have less of one essential, which is why it's ideal to eat a variety of plant and animal foods (or combine plant foods to create complete proteins if eating Vegetarian).

There is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence fitness of their plant and animal hosts, ultimately forming a metaorganism consisting of a uni - or multicellular host and a community of associated microorganisms.

Around 66 million years ago the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth with such force that it wiped out around 75 percent of all plant and animal species, including the entire species of dinosaurs that were alive at the time.

It publishes new research findings in areas of plant and animal ecology.

Dinoflagellates are primitive microorganisms that have characteristics of both plant and animal cells.

Worse yet is how the oceans have become poisoned with spilled fossil fuels and how those spills have impacted thousands of plant and animal species as well as the environment.

The energy in fossil fuels is also a result of photosynthesis because fossil fuels are formed from the remains of plant and animal matter.

Almost half of plant and animal species have experienced local extinctions due to climate change, research reveals, with the tropics suffering the most pronounced loss

The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of plant and animal host - pathogen interactions, host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.

When dust was scarce, forests could no longer support many of their plant and animal species.

Up to 30 percent of plant and animal species could face extinction if the global average temperature rises more than roughly 3 to 5 °C.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) The USDA's Plant Genome and Data Information Center provides access to a variety of information, products and services on a range of plant and animal genome mapping.

«Hotspot of biodiversity as a characteristic of the Balkans was put forward by biogeographers to indicate that most of the plant and animal species that repopulated the continent after glaciations came from the Balkans,» Roksandic explained.

This impacts people's livelihoods and threatens a wide range of plant and animal species.

Humic substances, which refer to a mixture of soil organic matter resulting from the decomposition of plant and animal residues, contain three fractions — fulvic acid, humic acid and humin — that have been shown through previous research to have a beneficial effect on plant root initiation and elongation.

Invasive species are also the second greatest cause of plant and animal species loss globally.

We support a rare assembly of plant and animal species — including 200 - year old American oak trees and wetlands that are home to the blue - spotted salamander — and contributes significantly to the protection of the area's water resources, air quality and carbon sequestration.

«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.

Between 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species face extinction by the end of the century, according to the IPCC report.

But the conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has devastated a huge number of plant and animal species, including tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans.

Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 202 8 Martas Street, Ekaterinburg 620144, Russia.

This view of Neandertals gathering plants and cooking barley porridge challenged the old view that our burly cousins went extinct because they depended too much on meat, whereas versatile modern humans could survive on a broader range of plant and animal foods.

Biologists of the 19th century faced this question as they became aware not only of the huge variety of plant and animal species, but also of the connections between these species.

Growing concern over the dwindling number of plant and animal species has led to a hunt for ways to save them, and in the past decade, the idea of maintaining wildlife corridors — strips of land to connect these sanctuaries — has become popular among conservationists.

«Climate change risk for half of plant and animal species in biodiversity hotspots: The Amazon, Miombo Woodlands in Southern Africa, and southwest Australia will be among the most affected places in the world, according to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by WWF.»

Also, climate change may allow some tropical and subtropical crops to thrive at mid-latitudes where they previously did not grow, but such changes could also improve conditions for crop pests and the spread of plant and animal diseases.

After breakfast, board our guided tour boat for a half - day journey through further canals and lagoons, and along the spectacular seashore — all within the diverse habitats of Tortuguero, where Caribbean sunshine and tropical rains give rise to an incredible profusion of plant and animal life.

Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs, riverbanks, mangroves, floodplains, rice fields — and anywhere else, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities there.