The fish began eating a lot
of the small organisms in the water.
Biology, he said, was the study of large organisms and physics was the study
of small organisms.
Larger organisms are complex unities
of smaller organisms.
Microscopes are set up for observation
of smaller organisms.
«I saw a poetic contradiction in the notion that
some of the smallest organisms in the world were reclaiming the instruments of much larger organisms.
Not exact matches
That's so that the tweaks that are made spread to the entire
organism, rather than affecting only a
small group
of cells.
The «microbiome,» or the collection
of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number
of major pharma companies like Merck and
smaller biotechs alike.
This synthetic power
of transforming
small «building stones» into the complicated compounds specific for each
organism is the «secret
of life» or rather one
of the secrets
of life.6
Complete certainty exists among essentially all biochemists that the other characteristics
of living
organisms (for example, selective permeability across all membranes, muscle contraction, and the hearing and memory process) will all be completely understood in terms
of the coordinative interactions
of large and
small molecules.2
At any stage
of development, man as a person in community and also the community
of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims
of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the
smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.
Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled
organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable
of very complex chemical activity.
I refer here to the
small group
of scientists who argue that in fact there is no qualitative difference between living
organisms and other chemical processes.
I won't ever understand how people could actually believe that something so massive, complex, and beautiful was actually started by some magical chance
of a random explosion, and that humans somehow evolved from some
small celled
organism that happened to be created out
of the explosion.
The chance
of large
organisms evolving is insanely
small, to the point
of basically being impossible.
Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very
small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances
of survival and reproduction for the
organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.
Each group
of smaller unities that occasions the emergence
of a larger, more comprehensive unity adds to the total sum
of organisms in reality and thus adds to reality itself.
A growing «innervation» and «cephalization»
of organisms: the working
of this law is visible in every living group known to us, the
smallest no less than the largest.
In the case
of an animal, the mental states enter into the plan
of the total
organism and thus modify the plans
of the successive subordinate
organisms until the ultimate
smallest organisms, such as electrons, are reached.
The first
of these new ideas carries forward a suggestion from earlier works, that science should postulate
small organisms as its units
of reality.
We simply can not give an answer anything like that we seek on the
smaller scale
of teleonomic performance
of machines, computers and
organisms.
Each genetic mutation produces only a very
small change in the biological features
of the
organism, but such
small changes accumulate over immense periods
of time and lead to the evolution
of new species from old.
Inadequate amounts
of vitamin C cause
small vessels in the body which bring nutrients to the skin to become fragile; the skin then breaks down more easily, facilitating the entry
of infectious
organisms.
Franz is extreme in his practices
of fostering a diverse life
of insects,
small animals, and other
organisms even in the world -LSB-...]
A
small amount
of bleach will kill some major disease causing
organisms in water making it safe to drink, cook with, or clean pump parts.
Since the population
of cells down there is
small, most people thought they would just barely be able to eke out a living, that they were
organisms with very few capabilities.
The ZEISS Lightsheet Z. 1 microscope includes a life - support chamber that can hold entire
organisms — a fruit fly or even a
small octopus, for example — dangling in front
of the objective, and permits easy rotation for a better point
of view.
2017 revealed some surprising biology
of organisms large and
small, from quick - dozing elephants to sex - changing lizards and carbon - dumping sea creatures.
As the trace element only exists in
small amounts in an
organism, it has to be consumed by way
of nutrition.
That means that
of all the possible sequences
of the four DNA letters — A, T, C, and G — only a very
small subset is represented by the genomes
of real
organisms.
At that time, there were lots
of nutrients in the ocean water there, because
small organisms called diatoms, which have silica shells, were able to thrive.
Entanglement, a quantum property once seemingly confined only to
small sets
of particles, has been demonstrated in far larger systems — and even within living
organisms.
Many
of the drugs we use today are essentially naturally - occurring peptides (
small) and proteins (large), both
of which are made up with the amino acids found in all living
organisms.
Now, a new generation
of researchers is attacking the problem, and a
small but growing group is taking its cue from evolutionary biology, which relies on genetic clues to decipher relationships between
organisms.
But with
smaller parties standing to gain political influence, battles over issues such as the regulation
of gene - edited
organisms and how to cut greenhouse - gas emissions could grow fiercer.
Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range
of applied problems: building a cell with the
smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living
organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.
Already, large companies such as DuPont are harnessing synthetic biology, and
small companies «are being built around the idea
of using
organisms, designing
organisms, using tools
of synthetic biology to make molecules that can't be produced any other way,» Glass says.
In a 1995 Science paper, Venter's team sequenced the genome
of Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted microbe with the
smallest genome
of any known free - living
organism, and mapped its 470 genes.
Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the
smallest genome
of any known, independent
organism.
(Syn 2.0 was an intermediate stage in this process, the first microbe with a genome
smaller than that
of M. genitalium, which with 525 genes has the fewest
of any free - living natural
organism.)
«Incredibly
small groups
of atoms, much too
small to display exact statistical laws... play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living
organism.
Some researchers argue that they are bits
of inert mineral; others contend they are among the world's
smallest and oldest living
organisms.
The challenge was to explain how genes act lawfully, and cause
organisms to behave lawfully, while being composed
of a very
small number
of atoms, a significant proportion
of which may be behaving unlawfully.
This week in Science, researchers led by genome sequencing pioneer Craig Venter report engineering a bacterium to have the
smallest genome — and the fewest genes —
of any freely living
organism,
smaller than the flower's by a factor
of 282,000.
It is truly remarkable that the single - lens instruments made by Leeuwenhoek could allow him to see
organisms so
small, yet even with the best lenses
of the day, he could not resolve their internal structures.
With a total
of 531,000 bases, the new
organism's genome isn't much
smaller than that
of M. genitalium, with 600,000 bases.
In examining the cloudy water with one
of his microscopes, Leeuwenhoek was surprised to find very
small organisms swimming around.
First described in the 1990s — a discovery that led to the 2006 Nobel Prize — RNAi is a process by which
organisms suppress the expression
of target genes through the action
of small RNA segments that bind to corresponding gene sequences.
The proteome (all an
organism's proteins) and the metabolome (all the metabolites, or
small molecules that are the outputs
of biological processes) are two
of several powerful datasets that become more informative when used together in a multi-omic approach.
They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the
smallest known genome
of all
organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria
of their own (the cell's power plant).
What's more, only a very
small percentage (6 %)
of proteins encoded by Pandoravirus salinus are similar to those already identified in other viruses or cellular
organisms.