Sentences with phrase «other microscopic organisms»

You might not think of a vagina as an «ecosystem,» but the bacteria and other microscopic organisms that live there sure do — and altering their habitat can harm the beneficial microbes that live there, opening the door for disease - causing microbes to take over the territory.

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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.

It gets rid of odors, from the ones other people can smell to the microscopic little organisms that will cause problems later.

Metals, foams and multicellular organisms are all mosaics of microscopic spaces or domains that jostle with each other, grow or shrink, cave in or bulge out.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

Nor, researchers thought, can any other eukaryotes — the group of organisms we belong to along with other animals, plants, fungi, and various microscopic creatures.

«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.

Since it invests its energy in a warm, dull, muggy condition, the penis can turn into a safe place for microscopic organisms and other small scale life forms that can prosper into disagreeable diseases, or in any event, cause an upsetting odor.

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

These microscopic, one - celled organisms cause gastroenteritis, pneumonia, skin infections, urinary tract problems, and many other diseases.