Sentences with phrase «organisms function in»

Hoffman Brandt, who explores how organisms function in complex environments, will construct live stakes of red - dogwood plantings into patterns of Morse Code, guiding visitors to hidden exhibitions throughout the area though her project titled Red Carpet Encrypted.

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As Stowe Boyd points out in «Metaphors Matter: Talking About How We Talk About Organizations,» an organization that functions like a dynamic organism is better able to change and adapt.

Like a biological organism, every product is made up of materials and the properties of those materials, in large part, determine how the product functions and performs.

Essentially the model reproduces the inner workings of all of the proteins within the organism and allows scientists to see everything from how cells interact with each other to the functions of genes in a larger context that had not been previously understood.

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.

For the philosophy of organism, changes are a function of the relation of actual entities in an event with respect to the extensive continuum.

At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

According to this account, the human being is a single total organism with many specialized functions, amongst which are thinking and feeling (generally regarded as operations of the soul in the traditional view).

In short, it is an autonomous, independent, and self - functioning unit; it is an organism.

Furthermore, successful functioning of a cell, organism or brain is contingent upon the recurrence of the most basic physico - chemical processes in their adherence to the laws of nature.

Thus nature, through the processes of evolution and the proper functioning of creatures in their respective environments, manifests the purposes inherent in creatures and their organs and «declares the intention of God embodied in theproperties of the organs and organisms».

But in the modern world several sciences have converged to press home to us the rational conclusion that each individual man is a psychosomatic unity, a living physical organism whose various organs, both physical and psychical, can only function as part of the total organism.

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.

How does a genetic mutation cause an organism to not only develop the sensors it needs to perceive the light, but also the wiring, and the function in the brain to process the light data at the same time?

DNA / RNA and proteins are by far the most important components of a living organism, carrying out virtually every function in a cell.

How would having, say, just the wiring mutation be an evolutionary advantage to the organism if it didn't have the eyes or processing ability in place to develop a function that would allow it to thrive over the common organism with no mutation?

Ivor Leclerc (3) has recently shown that although Whitehead has - done more than other atomists in explaining the kind of unity possessed by compounds and organisms, he still fails to do justice to the distinctive characteristics that emerge and function at these supraparticle levels.

An evolutionist is not surprised if he finds component parts or precursors of organs or functions fully developed in more complex organisms in their less complex relatives.

In his words, «If... organisms are designed, we expect DNA, as much as possible, to exhibit function.»

And as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that largersystem.

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).

This selection is made not only in terms of the more general organic interests and functions, but also in terms of particular interests of the singular organism within a unique portion of its duration (MM 304).

Wherever it is reasonable to posit a single center of experience playing a decisive role in the functioning of the organism as a whole, there it is reasonable to posit a soul.

Along with the importance of these relationships are several other key features: the nested hierarchies of organisation at hundreds - if not thousands - of different levels on this planet... the same laws of physics and chemistry function throughout the universe, and everything is related to everything else... as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that larger system.

In physical terms one may say that an organism must be a system that is endlessly engaged in producing, regenerating, or increasing inhomogeneity, and thereby the phenomenon of individuality, at all levels of its functioninIn physical terms one may say that an organism must be a system that is endlessly engaged in producing, regenerating, or increasing inhomogeneity, and thereby the phenomenon of individuality, at all levels of its functioninin producing, regenerating, or increasing inhomogeneity, and thereby the phenomenon of individuality, at all levels of its functioning.

Likewise, the early Chicago theologians focused their inquiry on the function of theological concepts and ideologies, they tended to analyze their subject in terms of the interplay of organism and environment, and they thought in terms indicative of a context of adjustment and adaptation.

These writings in logical and psychological theory, concerned with the methodology of inquiry generally, contended that mental processes are functions of the biological organism in its adaptation to, response to, and control of the environing situation.

On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel subjective experience.

Many of these occasions also interact in specialized ways with each other, providing the internal functioning and the sense awareness of a living organism.

It exists in any enduring object where there is a single center of experience that coordinates the functioning of the organism as a whole.

This function is to impress the value of the whole on some of the parts, specifically the human organisms, in a manner relevant to the cultural, historical and psychological situation of these organic participants in the cosmic process.

Or are different functions in the organism of humanity allotted to different types of man, so that some may really be the better for a religion of consolation and reassurance, whilst others are better for one of terror and reproof?

In the case of the latter, some function is not synonymous with original function / function in other organisms and you ignore those examples which clearly provide no benefiIn the case of the latter, some function is not synonymous with original function / function in other organisms and you ignore those examples which clearly provide no benefiin other organisms and you ignore those examples which clearly provide no benefit.

In the durations they are made by sense - awareness, and when he gets to his notion of organisms they are non-arbitrary because there is the unit in time needed for functioning to take placIn the durations they are made by sense - awareness, and when he gets to his notion of organisms they are non-arbitrary because there is the unit in time needed for functioning to take placin time needed for functioning to take place.

A higher organism, Bergson states, is essentially a neuromotor system installed on systems of digestion, respiration, secretion, etc., «whose essential function is to cleanse and protect it...» (CE 124; cf. also 121, 123, 126, 252) A Bergsonian temporal hierarchy in a higher organism must then be essentially threefold: Consciousness, brain and nervous system, and motor system, with the rhythms of the first «extending over» the second and those of the second over the third.

NOW... LIFE... «I WAS dead - but I am alive...» God gave earthly things as a reminder of spiritual ones (new birth, promised land etc.) Let's see the function of blood in the living organism: the major one is TRANSPORTING of a) oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and rest of the body, b) nutrients to the body, c) Waste products to be detoxified or removed by the liver and kidneys... See the picture?

What it becomes is a function of its own past, but also of its neighbors, of its place in the whole organism, and finally in the whole world.

Pure instinctive action is that functioning of an organism which is wholly analyzable in terms of those conditions laid upon its development by the settled facts of its external environment....

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

A Waldorf school is a living organization involving many people who each have their own relationship to the endeavor, and who find themselves in groups that have particular roles and responsibilities — all important to the overall function and health of the organism.

Blasting GM DNA into a plant arbitrarily and out of a sequence of genes that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, in a manner aimed to optimise the functioning of an organism, is risky and unpredictable, and bound to destabilise the biochemistry of the plant.

DNA is the molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms.

Pharmacology is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function.

It has also given engineers the tools to manipulate the natural functions of organisms in ways that were unimaginable only a decade ago, opening up rich sources of new biology - based materials.

Another is how cells in a single organism take on different functions despite having identical genomes.

Circadian rhythms of 24 hours govern fundamental physiological functions in virtually all organisms.

The Cologne molecular biologist is an expert on root - colonizing fungi and the plant immune system, the Würzburg chemist is a specialist for sugar molecules and their functions in cells and organisms.

Gene expression is the process whereby the genetic information of DNA is used to manufacture functional products, such as proteins, which have numerous different functions in living organisms.

As mere fragments of genes, ESTs by themselves generally have no intrinsic function in an organism.

Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.