Sentences with phrase «of whole organism»

However, behavior is the most complex phenotype because it reflects not only the functioning of the whole organism but also is dynamic and changes in response to environmental influences.

Genetra's Red - Gen delivers 600 mg of whole organism red algae along with 70 mg of Calcium in each veggie capsule.

By discovering the nature of who we are we can use nutrition, yoga, exercise, meditation, breath - work, self - care practices and more to effectively heal and maintain the health of our whole organism.

The Unit studies varied mammalian physiological phenomena from a molecular perspective in the context of the whole organism with a very strong emphasis, following a recent refocusing of our research on Neurobiology and Epigenetics and their interface.

Although experimental mammalian genetics with the use of ES cells and the techniques pioneered by my co-awardees is now well founded and used, there is still much to be learned and much interesting research in store about what genes really do in the context of the real biology of the whole organism in a complex environment.

It is known that a perturbation in the interaction between genetic, metabolic and energetic factors modulates metabolic responses of the whole organism and individual organs and tissues, predisposing the onset of diabetes mellitus and associated metabolic diseases (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease damaged renal function and cardiovascular disease).

By studying the planarian we hope to understand how stem cells are regulated to produce missing tissues and organs in the context of a whole organism.

Successful plant breeding relies on thorough understanding of the whole organism's response to genetic modification.

«Tuck can talk about everything from the arcana of molecular genetics of aging to aging at the level of the whole organism, including ecological and evolutionary and demographic components.»

«We are trying to understand the causes of aging by linking the mechanisms that control the oxidation of proteins at the cellular level with the mechanisms that determine the lifespan of the whole organism,» Apfeld says.

The functioning of any one part of such a system reflects and influences, to some degree, the interaction of all the parts of the whole organism.

It is a response of the whole organism to events in their full qualitative richness.

In the organic responses of the adverbial level, selective processes operate according to what is relevant to the fulfilment of the organism as a whole.12 At the same time, although some selectivity may occur, adverbial responses tend to take the character of «total assertions» of the whole organism about the whole object it confronts.13 At the accusative level, or level of conscious symbolization, whole masses of irrelevant detail are excluded according to some principle of relevance operating in consciousness at the time.

Injured parts are repaired, or other parts modify their functions to compensate for the loss, restoring the integrity of the whole organism.

Thus, just as the loss of an essential organ brings the death of the whole organism, so the death of the physical organism brings to an end those psychical or spiritual aspects of a man which are usually thought of as characterizing his uniqueness.

If this is the case, it follows that there can be no soul apart from a body, and that in particular the death of a human being involves the disintegration of the whole organism, including its organizing principle, the soul.

Darwin wrote about how evolution shapes the destiny of whole organisms, but its principles apply to individual cells, too.

Manipulating biological processes with minimal interference, from the cellular level to the behavior of whole organisms, is a burgeoning scientific effort to better understand how living things work and to develop more effective treatments for a range of medical disorders.

«Cell death has been widely studied but much less is known about death of whole organisms, how it happens, what triggers it, and when it begins and ends.

Site specific recombinases are prominent genetic engineering tools that allow the genetic manipulation of whole organisms.

Not exact matches

But there's a dark side too: Each of those cells has the power to go awry — and take down the whole organism with it.

Beyond algae, sloth fur is also a habitat for a whole range of organisms, from moths and cockroaches to fungi.

The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological theory of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

It is, thus, a unification of the whole psychosomatic organism from its cellular perspective.

At the outset he made it clear that he rejected the whole idea of a cosmic consciousness, «since all the galactic systems, with their exploding stars and vast lifeless spaces in between, give no evidence of being organized like a biological organism fit to embody a conscious mind...» (40).

But there are major organs, the loss of any one of which brings death to the whole organism.

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.

The very phrase, a «philosophy of organism,» used by Whitehead so often to capture the tenor of his approach, remains a challenge to attend to the interconnectedness and interdependence which deserves to be appreciated as contributing substantively to any organic whole.

Whitehead's educational theory is grounded in his philosophy of organism, or an organic understanding of how every part fits with the whole.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

The school of social functionalism examines the ways in which society, considered as an organism, attempts to contain and manage conflict, integrating disparate members and subgroups into the whole.

Consistent with his dynamic orientation, Sullivan speaks of the lust dynamism as a means of conveying the whole range of sexual feelings and urges which begin to influence the organism.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

Then we may see subjectivity as pertaining to the activity of an organism taken as a whole.

I mean to assert that my conscious experience, the experience constitutive of me as a conscious ego, is the experience of the actual entities constitutive of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my whole animal organism.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

Each evolutionary event is conditioned by the whole preceding history of the species, by the environment in which it occurs, and possibly, in higher organisms with developed nervous systems, by the behavioral reactions of these organisms.

When Enlightenment thinkers decided that the whole of nature operates in terms of mechanical forces, they concluded that the apparent difference between organisms and mechanisms is only apparent.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

But the whole point of the modem doctrine is the evolution of the complex organisms from antecedent states of less complex organisms.

The question now arises as to whether this highly organized and active psyche performs any of its actions for its own enjoyment or enhancement and independent of its contribution to the welfare of the organism as a whole.

Second, successive occasions build upon the achievements of their predecessors, in this respect, in such a way as significantly to modify the behavior of the organism as a whole.

First, the aim at intensity or richness of experience on the part of individual moments of the soul's life leads the soul to actualize itself in ways that are immediately rewarding to it, independently of their consequences for the organism as a whole.

We are «wholes,» with body, mind, and spirit: And to be a person is to be just that kind of organism.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

He points out that in between the material on the one hand and the mental on the other «there lie the concepts of life, organism, function, instantaneous reality, interaction, order of nature, which collectively form the Achilles» heel of the whole system» (84).

With Leibniz, Hartshorne maintains that some organisms are governed by a «dominant entelechy» that serves as a center of perception and activity (Monadology # 70); other organisms, and all inorganic wholes (e.g. chemical compounds and minerals), have insufficient organizational complexity to act or feel «as one.

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