Sentences with phrase «of smaller organisms»

Microscopes are set up for observation of smaller organisms.

Larger organisms are complex unities of smaller organisms.

Biology, he said, was the study of large organisms and physics was the study of small organisms.

The fish began eating a lot of the small organisms in the water.

«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.