Sentences with phrase «of symbiotic organisms»

By sampling different ocean locations for the presence of an elusive but critical group of algae, researchers have gained new insight into the dwelling places of the symbiotic organisms that reef corals need for survival.

It can not digest grass and needs a whole mess of symbiotic organisms in its overgrown esophagus to digest it.

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A truly Catholic ethic might show more respect for the symbiotic nature of very early uterine life by regarding a woman and her fetus as a single organism, with one informing consciousness — that of the woman.

Soccer crowds become part of one large organism, symbiotic, made up of disparate elements whose individuals are totally involved in the life of the thing itself, like a Portuguese man - of - war.

With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.

They found the same pattern occurring across continents and various ocean locations — as well as across various levels of productivity and diversity — all of which showed shifts in the way symbiotic organisms interacted.

The general mechanisms of symbiosis revealed in the study are of relevance to other symbiotic organisms such as deep - sea tubeworms and giant clams.»

Shapira expands on this idea to encompass some of the newest discoveries about amazing symbiotic relationships between organisms that, because they depend on one another, are tied together for life.

But one thing's for sure, the discovery means rewriting textbooks to add salamanders to a short list of organisms, including coral and bacteria, that form symbiotic relationships with plants.

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

This theory of endosymbiosis, a symbiotic relationship between an organism living inside another, has stood the test of time.

That fact that mitochondria have their own DNA, RNA, and ribosomes, supports the endosymbiosis theory, as does the existence of the amoeba, a eukaryotic organism that lacks mitochondria and therefore requires a symbiotic relationship with an aerobic bacterium.

This endosymbiosis, or symbiotic merging of two cells, enabled the evolution of a highly stable and successful organisms with the capacity to use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis.

Strangest of all were genetic signatures resembling parasites or symbiotic partners of large aquatic organisms: a rainbow trout intestinal bacterium, a sponge symbiont, a lobster gut bacterium.17

Diet, however, remains one of the main avenues through which symbiotic microbes populate an organism.

The primary dependence of these organisms on symbiotic relationships has led many scientists to re-evaluate the importance of these associations in many other communities of organisms.

Jellyfish have symbiotic relationships with living things of all sizes, from fish and shrimp that feed off them or off the pieces of food left between their tentacles, to single - celled photosynthesizing organisms that take shelter inside the cytoplasm of the jellyfish's cells.

The term «microbiota» is also used to describe these organisms and specifically means: «the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space.»

Pronounced li - ken, lichens are actually a complex symbiotic partnership of several different organisms.

Kombucha is made when live organisms also known as the SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) or «The Mother», feast on sugar and produce a fermented fuzzy tea.

It is a transient organism in the human digestive tract that enjoys a complex symbiotic relationship with the resident bacteria of the digestive tract to promote the well - being of your entire body.

The verbal and visual can function as a symbiotic organism of absorption, expression, and possibility — one thing illuminates the other without hierarchy and by internal obligation.

Lichens, which are a symbiotic association of a fungal and photosynthetic organism, are generally not considered plants in the purest sense of taxonomy, although earlier classification schemes viewed them as plants.

lichen symbiotic organisms consisting of an alga and fungus important to the weathering and breakdown of rocks

That way, they can get a lot of sunlight to support the photosynthetic organisms with which they have a mutualistic symbiotic relationship.