Sentences with phrase «only by organisms»

Modern researchers have discovered that a good memory is a prerequisite: It seems reciprocity is practiced only by organisms that can keep track of those who are helpful and those who are not.

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God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

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 persons were only intelligent organisms with finite wants, the problem of adjusting demand and supply could in principle be easily settled by rational calculation.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.

If recent evidence for Lamarckian inheritance (the inheritance of mutations induced by an organism in response to its immediate environment) holds up and is expanded, it would provide a way of showing not only the importance of self - determination and hybrid physical feelings in evolution, but also of how divinely rooted initial aims could be effective.

Nevertheless, he admits, «end - directed thinking — teleological thinking — is appropriate in biology because, and only because, organisms seem [my emphasis] as if they were manufactured, as if they had been created by an intelligence and put to work.»

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

If the mediaeval doctrine is presupposed, and it is coming to the fore again, that the spiritual soul only comes into existence at a later stage in the growth of the embryo, several pre-human stages will lie between the fertilized ovum and the organism animated by a spiritual soul.

It is only in sense - perception, enjoyed by high - grade organisms, that the sensa are clearly perceived as qualifying some external region of space (PR 174, 177; AI 276).

(From the Christian point of view (which in this coincides with the biological viewpoint logically carried to its extreme) the «gathering together» of the Spirit gradually accomplished in the course of the «coiling» of the Universe, occurs in two tempos and by two stages — a by slow «evaporation» (individual deaths); and simultaneously b by incorporation in the collective human organism («the mystic body») whose maturation will only be complete at the end of Time, through the Parousia.)

Whereas what is thought of as a lump of matter is related to other lumps of matter only externally, that is, in ways that do not affect what it is, organisms are largely constituted by their relations.

Whitehead takes the notion of «organism» as the most profitable one for designating the natural units, but, by making macro-organisms societies of micro-organisms and giving directed activity only to these, he loses the distinctive unity of macro-organisms.

Caused by micro-organisms on the skin or body, they only become a problem when the organisms have an opportunity to breach the body's natural defences through an open or via intravenous devices.

Going by the name Pando (Latin for «I spread»), one particular colony of male aspen trees in Utah is not only the largest organism on earth (weighing in at over 6,000 tons), it is also the oldest, estimated to be 80,000 years old.

Just taking antibiotics may disturb the ecosystem in our gut by killing not only disease - causing organisms but also good bacteria, like Lactobacillus acidophilus.

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.

Not only is RNAi used to regulate gene expression within an organism, it also can combat viral infection by silencing the activity of viral genes required for the pathogen's replication.

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.

The second encompasses the uncultivated organisms from environmental samples known only by their molecular signatures.

The size and population of the city organism was limited only by how effectively it could process its waste.

However, to date, only a handful of metabolites principally produced by microbiota — rather than the host organism itself — have been identified.

By creating MARRVEL (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration) they are now able to help not only their own lab but also researchers everywhere search databases all at once and in a matter of minutes.

Though they have only shown epimutations in two species of M. circinelloides, they have already been approached by a number of other researchers who are interested in investigating similar unstable behavior in other organisms like Aspergillus and Neurospora.

But it seems we're far from being the only organisms inspired by the moon's beauty.

In other words, there are only so many ways to build a simple animal, and Dendrogramma might have come out looking like the Ediacaran organisms by chance.

Earlier results by American researchers indicated that, unlike in single - cell organisms, defective mRNAs in multicellular organisms can only be recognised and degraded by NMD for a short time period directly after their production.

In large organisms with relatively small population sizes, such as humans, only in the order of 1 % of the genomic information is shaped by the environment via natural selection.

Zebrafish have only been used as a model organism by a lot of labs in the last 15 years or so.

VY: I'd like to go back to the idea that evolution has created a beautiful canvas for understanding regeneration with all these different organisms that already exist in nature, and that we can learn quite a bit by querying not only individual systems but multiple systems that share this unique quality.

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

In Yeast, Worms, Flies, and Mice, Only About 1 in 3 Genes is Essential for Viability The consequences of some genomic perturbations can not be compensated for by normal epigenetic processes and result in the death of the organism prior to adulthood.

This knowledge, which will only be rapidly obtainable in the model organisms, will allow the reduction of most of the approximately 70,000 individual genes encoded by the human genome into a much smaller number of multicomponent, core processes of known biochemical function.

Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.

We consider proteases and protease inhibitors separately because it is difficult to distinguish those with an immune role from those with other primary roles in the organism, and thus all of the immune - related proteases and protease inhibitors predicted by HMM or blast should be considered only tentatively assigned to an immune role.

Still, the researchers did not expect that the methane they were seeking would be generated by iron - only nitrogenase in this organism.

But natural selection isn't the only mechanism by which organisms evolve, she said.

Only lab confirmation can detect whether flu - like symptoms, including serious complications like pneumonia, are caused by influenza viruses or other types of viral or bacterial organisms.

Parasites can range from tiny organisms, visible only by microscope to long tapeworms (several feet long).

The organisms that do the fermenting produce alcohol, lactic acid and acetic acid, which can be called «bio-preservatives», as they not only prevent spoilage but also enhance nutrition by breaking foods down into more easily digestible forms and adding certain B vitamins to the food (1).

Because Greek Yogurt is processed even further to the point where virtually all the whey is removed, it only contains Lactobacillus bulgaricus and streptococcus thermophilus.Bacterial profiles are measured in yogurt products, kefir products, and probiotic supplements by the amount of probiotic organisms per serving and the diversity of those units.

By going organic, you are not only avoiding pesticides, you are also avoiding genetically modified ingredients and organisms, mineral depleting chemical fertilizers, artificial ingredients and harmful preservatives.

It does not take long for Joe and Ford to find themselves in the middle of a facility run in part by two Godzilla researchers (Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins) only to discover that they have been monitoring a giant egg sac - like organism that appears to have been the cause of the original accident.

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Human is the last step out of the egg; we can exceed it only by making a deliberate conceived sacrifice of the organism.

The only way to know if an infection has been resolved completely is by looking in the ear and performing a cytology (cell study) to look for persistent organisms.

Many times an accurate diagnosis only can be made by looking at samples under a microscope, performing blood tests and performing cultures to isolate the specific organisms responsible for the infection.

Recombinant: Vaccine manufactured through gene cloning (plasmid expressed) or by recombining selected DNA from a pathogenic organism with DNA from another virus (viral vectored), leading to the expression, following inoculation, of only essential antigens required to immunize.