Sentences with phrase «oxygen environment such»

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And in such an extreme environment, your body would use up all of the oxygen in your blood in about 15 seconds.

Aside from myriad practical applications, these organisms could exemplify the kinds of life that exist in environments where little or no oxygen exists, such as the deep ocean or under the Martian surface.

Our cover story, «The Ultimate Social Network,» by Jennifer Ackerman, describes the efforts to map our human microbiome — no easy feat when certain critters, such as the gut bacteria that prosper in an oxygen - free environment, are challenging to grow in petri dishes in a laboratory.

The finding could explain how some bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), are able to thrive in oxygen - poor environments like biofilms and resist antibiotics.

Thriving in environments that lacked oxygen, they relied on compounds such as carbon dioxide, sulfur - containing molecules or iron minerals that act as oxidizing agents to break down food.

Levin encountered such blooms recently in low - oxygen environments off India's coast, where «the jellyfish were as thick as soup,» she says.

Microbes living in oxygen - rich environments use enzymes floating free inside their cells to digest such plant matter.

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»

How the spotted, gray felines survive in such low oxygen environments has puzzled scientists for years.

The crystalline salt can steal oxygen from its environment only after it's been «emptied» of the oxygen already attached to it, which requires specific conditions, such as pressurization.

Researchers will look next at whether the adaptation affects how the killifish are able to respond to other kinds of stressors in their environment, such as low oxygen levels.

Many bacteria produce methane as a byproduct of their metabolism, but most of these bacteria live in oxygen - poor environments such as the deep ocean or the digestive tract of animals — not near the ocean's surface.

Can such life survive and flourish in extremely hot and cold temperatures, or in oxygen poor and carbon dioxide or methane rich environments?

For example: Starting with the «trees» — trees providing shade, protection (wind, rain, sun), cooling environment, soil health, oxygen, resources such as timber / fibre / woodchips / fuel for humans and shade / homes / food for animals.

Such an oxygen depleted environment was brought about by salinity stratification and restricted water circulation.