Sentences with phrase «on microscopic organisms»

But new tools are shedding light on the microscopic organisms that, although invisible to our eyes, constitute the «most diverse and abundant» life forms on earth.

Using stinging tentacles, the polyps feed on microscopic organisms that drift their way.

There, the native plants» prosperity depends in a large part on microscopic organisms called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Not exact matches

While this works well on salt, it doesn't really help to weed out other contaminants that might be found in seawater, like dirt or microscopic organisms.

I like to think we can apply this same logic to many other things, including a belief that we evolved on this planet from microscopic organisms.

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

Both studies relied on a popular lab organism known as C. elegans, a nearly microscopic nematode that is fast growing, translucent and has a sequenced genome showing that nearly half its genes are closely related to corresponding human genes.

A glassy object snapped into focus — a round disk, serrated on the edge, perforated with dimples — the shell of an aquatic microscopic organism called a diatom.

Now researchers at MIT and Bristol University in the United Kingdom have found that these microscopic, mixotrophic organisms may have a large impact on the ocean's food web and the global carbon cycle.

Still, «our research is focused on the presence of these [microscopic] organisms,» Maritz says.

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

«Ancient marine algae provides clues of climate change impact on today's microscopic ocean organisms.»

That means the coral likely relies on microscopic symbiotic organisms called dinoflagellates to biosynthesize cysteine for it, making the coral particularly susceptible to changing climate conditions that endanger its tiny helpers.

With rising temperatures, the ranges of many species of phytoplankton — the microscopic, plantlike organisms the grazers feed on — will shift away from the tropics and toward the poles, according to a new study.

«Science shows us the many ways that life is interconnected, especially on the microscopic level, where we see how many organisms depend on close contact with or internalization of other species for food, defense, or reproduction,» said lead author John Burns, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

bacteria Microscopic, single - celled organisms that dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside animals.

The month - long sea campaign across the Pacific on the research vessel Falkor will monitor the diversity of oceanic phytoplankton, microscopic plant - like organisms, and their impact on the marine carbon cycle.

These microscopic organisms predominantly live on undigested fiber in our diet and love inulin.

Some are microscopic, and others are over 300 feet tall and are among the largest organisms on the planet.

On one two - page spread in Ocean Sunlight, we illustrate the concept of how quickly phytoplankton reproduces by including a series of circles increasing in size, each with a close - up view of these microscopic organisms.

Diagnosis is based on finding the organism on microscopic examination of a fresh fecal sample.

Neto's earth - toned crocheted structures are both animalistic and reminiscent of microscopic organisms in form, a strange duality that causes the works to feel like indigenous products or abodes from a parallel universe, one where Western colonization never infected native culture, allowing the tribes to continue to develop culturally and technologically on their own.

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These microscopic organisms partner with the root systems of approximately 95 percent of the plants on Earth, and they sequester carbon in much more meaningful ways than human «carbon offsets» will ever achieve.

Most Antarctic marine organisms, from microscopic phytoplankton to the Adélie penguin, depend on sea ice to live and reproduce.

The conclusion is based on a finding that bromine and iodine oxide, natural chemicals produced by sea spray and emissions from microscopic sea organisms, destroyed ozone in the atmosphere west of equatorial Africa — destroyed 50 % more ozone than than expected.

Mold is a type of fungus made up of tiny microscopic organisms that can grow practically anywhere, such as on ceiling tiles, wallpaper, wood, paints, carpet, and insulation.