Sentences with phrase «organism by organism»

Not exact matches

Biological organisms attempt to fight the chaos of the physical world by organizing themselves into cells and more complex organisms.

The Great Barrier Reef has been damaged by agricultural runoff from farms and by coral - devouring crown - of - thorns starfish, which liquify coral organisms.

According to the Oxford research, companies that ply in fine arts, originality, negotiation, persuasion, social perceptiveness and assisting or caring for others are in the least danger of being overtaken by Schwarzenegger - like T - 800 cybernetic organisms.

By contrast, genetically modified organisms are ones where scientists have taken a gene for a specific trait that would not be found in that species normally, and spliced it into the genome.

General Mills (GIS), which has already removed genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from its original Cheerios, has cut sugar by 25 % in its Yoplait yogurt.

The studies showed that acid rain starved lake trout by killing smaller organisms that made up their main food supply.

The WTO decreed in a complaint brought by the U.S., Canada and Argentina that the EU had violated its WTO obligations by creating «undue delays» in the approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Not sure what you mean by «genetic information», but evolution requires changes in the genes of the next generation of organism, which is exactly what happens with gene duplication, transposition, etc..

If it increases the survival probability of the organism (measured by, well more of them live) then it stays in future generations.

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

If there was a God who intelligently designed the universe and life then why would we have anything bigger than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?

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 first is that, absent midwifing by a magisterial authority, Protestantism was from birth an ineluctably fissiparous organism.

The organism (and especially the cell) was to them a «black box»» a machine that does wonderful things by some mechanism nobody knows.

Matter spontaneously self - constructed miraculously to produce the first single - celled organism which by the way had to be complex at the very start in order to sustain itself AND reproduce?

The various metaphors from nature, on the other hand — organism, process, body, ground of being — tend to rule out full explication of the historical dimension as it is attested by the biblical writers.

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.

Just as the flow of a stream is determined by a specific landscape, so it seems that the growth and development of the proteins follow an «epigenetic landscape» which is extraneous to the physico - chemical forces that energize the growth process.8 And just as the geographical landscape is extraneous to the flow of water by the power of gravitation, so the epigenetic landscape is extraneous to the «flow» of energized matter operating by physico - chemical forces in the organism's epigenesis.

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.

Some non-mechanical causative principle of order is required to explain, for example, why the molecules of living beings come together into specific shapes, why organisms develop specific characteristics or have the capacity to regulate their metabolism or readjust and reintegrate themselves holistically when injured or when challenged by their environment.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

Patentization of the process, produce, and living organisms, is facilitation of predatory operation by foreign corporate power.

When we die our bodies do go back to the earth, become ingested by other organisms, and end up back in the food cycle, yes?

Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties of «life», by thorough specification of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and organisms.

It is certainly true that the healthy body, controlled by the healthy mind, will successfully resist all kinds of disease - producing organisms.

Biology can be designated as a science logically distinct from physics and chemistry because its heuristic field is constituted by questions directed toward whole organisms (plants and animals), cells and their «achievements» rather than toward atoms and molecules as such.

But what we are trying to describe, by each of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning of the total organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.

The church is an organism brought into being by the unique series of events associated with the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth.

The evidence is that biological evolution has proceeded continuously since that distant time by evolution of populations of living organisms through natural selection of best procreators.

The organisms selected by nature for survival will pass on to their offspring the favorable genetic characteristics.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Scientists may think they have good reasons for believing that living organisms evolved naturally from nonliving chemicals, or that complex organs evolved by the accumulation of micromutations through natural selection, but having reasons is not the same as having proof.

It's an expression of the leader's trust in the releasable inner resources of each individual, trust in the group as a potentially helpful organism, and trust in the process by which the people dynamic in individuals and groups is released.

What makes DNA do its work is not its chemistry but the order of the bases along the DNA chain: It is this order which is a code to be read out by the developing organism.

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.

Structures found in nature are too complex to have evolved step - by - step through natural selection [the concept of «irreducible complexity «1]: Natural selection does not require that all structures have the same function or even need to be functional at each step in the development of an organism.

This amounts to the doctrine that an organism is «alive» when in some measure its reactions are inexplicable by any tradition of pure physical inheritance» (PR 159).

Such is Locke's conclusion, a conclusion which one might conceivably interpret as an objection to the very possibility of a philosophy of organism along the lines laid out by Whitehead.

This was not to be one further elucidation of Whitehead's «philosophy of organism,» but Leclerc's own detailed recounting of how we must recover a few basic presuppositions if we are ever to elucidate a philosophy of nature worthy of our post-Whiteheadian era — an era unhappily determined to grapple with the complexities of contemporary science by leaving Whitehead aside.

All of these — animals, cells and atoms — are thus called «organisms» by Whitehead, one of Hartshorne's main sources for his psychicalism.

It also serves as a warning to us that the tension between organism and atomism, between our appreciation of the physical existence of constituents and of complex bodies, is not likely to be resolved simply by attending more closely to the details in Process and Reality, chapter and verse.

What is wanted is an appreciation of the infinite variety of vivid values achieved by an organism in its proper environment.

And every organism is oriented by its own drives to move beyond its immediate environment toward the future of itself and its species.

According to his model, personality is conceived as a dynamic living organism made up of a number of interacting dynamisms and subdynamisms recognizable by a recurring pattern of identity.

A fuller understanding of what Whitehead means by «actual world» would help one to contextualize the matrix within which the formation of security operations by an organism occur.