Sentences with phrase «other simpler organisms»

But we see it insects and other simpler organisms.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

Bacteria and some other simple organisms are prokaryotic.

Not exact matches

David Griffin, on the other hand, agrees with Leclerc that complex physical organisms are more than simple aggregates of actual entities, but maintains at the same time that such a view is altogether consistent with Whitehead's philosophy.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

Indeed, modern ecosystems depend on the persistence of bacteria and fungi and other relatively very simple and archaic life forms to break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients.

The same subjective principle can be applied to other organisms, be they simple bacteria, dinosaurs or cats and dogs.

But while this study has proved that the technique works in a simple organism, it could also be applied to other bacterial species, yeast or even human cells to find useful information about how genes are controlled and how they can be manipulated.

The simple, single - celled creatures have captured scientists» interest because they are unlike any other organism known to science.

Those other organisms are another aspect that sets Spore apart from simple video games.

There's a lot of attention right now on how neurons fire and interact with each other, but the truth is, we don't even understand how a brain develops — even in the most simple of organisms like C. elegans, a worm with only 300 brain cells.

After all, if the nanoparticles can boost photosynthesis in those simple cellular organisms, then fuel, food and other products derived from algae might become more viable.

The reason for the disparity may be that the standard computer annotation method was largely developed for the genomes of simple (prokaryotic) organisms, not for the more complex sequences found in the genomes of humans and other eukaryotes.

It also offers an opportunity to study learning types in other very simple organisms, such as viruses or bacteria.

It may also raise questions as to the learning capacities of other extremely simple organisms such as viruses and bacteria.

It also lacks the energy - generating mitochondria present in most living things and digests food with fermentation enzymes found only in bacteria and other very simple single - celled organisms.

Antibiotics and other modern medicines do not work on viruses because these radically simple organisms infiltrate cells and hijack their processes to serve their own purposes.

One of the sharpest critics of Cuvier's theory of cataclysms was Jean - Baptiste Lamarck (1744 to 1829), who was convinced that all living things had originated from simple organisms, and were therefore related to each other.

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.

The cells might have descended from a simpler organism or acquired their complexity by snatching genes from other microbes.

In some cases, it may not be as simple as removing one organism or adding one or two other organisms.

The possibility of transferring this capacity to organisms as simple as bacteria opens a wide range of options in the world of biomedicine and, as the authors point out, to other fields as diverse as the repair of threatened ecosystems.