Sentences with phrase «part of the organism»

The «irreducible complexity» or if one part of the organism is removed, then it would not work properly, like an eye or a wing.

Each believer is becoming part of an organism that will have God at its center.

The point is that, having demonstrated that design is required to explain at least one part of an organism, whether or not it is present elsewhere becomes wholly irrelevant, because one need only demonstrate that design was required in one aspect to show that a designer mustexist.

Moreover, Harts - home maintains that an organism may have other organisms as parts or organs but that not all the parts of organisms need themselves be organisms.

Or when parents who are an integral part of the organism don't identify with the mission of the school or follow healthy school processes?

CRISPR - Cas9 is a versatile and highly accurate gene - editing technology that allows researchers to modify specific parts of an organism's genome by altering sections of the DNA sequence.

It was an interesting story that I never had really heard of before working on this issue, which was that there was, in the U.S. you couldn't patent, kind of, a naturally occurring organism, or a human part of an organism.

It is known that the ATM protein is one of the main proteins involved in DNA repair in somatic cells (any of the cells forming part of our organism, except for germline cells).

More importantly, Zhang and his team for the first time found that treating the pancreatic tumor cells with MIR506 induced autophagy, a process that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development and that could promote cancer cell death.

They usually preserve only part of an organism — the part that was hard and sturdy to begin with.

Paligenosis, Mills explains, appears similar to apoptosis — the programmed death of cells as a normal part of an organism's growth and development — in that it seems to happen the same way in every cell, regardless of its location in the body.

'' [I'm studying] the possible role of nanobacteria in symbiotically precipitating hard parts of organisms, from clam shells to dinosaur teeth,» says Folk.

«Coherence,» he writes, «means no mere sameness but sameness in difference: not the unity of grains of sand, but of parts of an organism which complement each other but are not all cast in the same mold.»

Nicole Johnson, Atlanta native and a founding artist of Fly on a Wall, is thrilled to find herself a part of an organism grown from the fertile and creative grounds of the vibrant city of Atlanta.

Calzolari has often compared his work to a temple in which the sculptures were «never envisaged as a finished act -LSB-...], but rather as different parts of an organism that spark a conversation».

Abscission means that a plant will cut away, various parts of its organism.

Not exact matches

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.

Wolf likewise notes that the electromagnetic field which is the brain seems to be part of a still greater field of activity which is the total physical organism:

Nasa is interested in these organisms because they survive on very little energy, suggesting the exciting prospect of modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

As another example of rearrangement note that the chapter on «Organisms and Environment» (now 11.4)- is twice referred to as «Part II, Ch.

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

Things existed long before any awareness of them arose or could have arisen on the part of living organisms.»

Instead, this freedom is found in the person who sees herself as a part of one spiritual organism, which is the church.

Like any other organism, the group is more than the sum of its parts.

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.

Whitehead's educational theory is grounded in his philosophy of organism, or an organic understanding of how every part fits with the whole.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

Human beings and our artifacts are part of the environment of other organisms just as much as they are part of the environment for us.

They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its consciousness (symbolic rather than literal of what and where it is, and of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.

We can see it at play in MRSA and many single celled organisms — but Christians deny it because it makes us PART of the environment rather than having dominion OVER it.

He means that an organism determines the eventual character and integration of its own parts.

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 reality, they assumed, a deeper analysis of organisms shows that their behavior is also explained by efficient causes operating among their parts or on them from without.

Second, epistemologically speaking, Bergson means by «matter» the way in which the intellect approaches all things (whether vital or inert) as if they were simply the sums of their parts — parts that are subject to being disassembled and re-assembled in any order whatsoever to serve the abstract ends of the intellect itself or the purposes of the organism that intellect serves.

Although Whitehead's philosophy of organism is an explicitly metaphysical theory and Piaget's genetic theory of cognition is markedly a naturalistic theory, the first part of...

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

First, the aim at intensity or richness of experience on the part of individual moments of the soul's life leads the soul to actualize itself in ways that are immediately rewarding to it, independently of their consequences for the organism as a whole.

Injured parts are repaired, or other parts modify their functions to compensate for the loss, restoring the integrity of the whole organism.

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.

The franchise itself is a massive organism of shifting parts and new ideas, and it shows in its more recent advancements in gender and racial diversity.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

They should be treated as though they were parts of a vast living organism.

It's only that men don't know it... Each man is part of the single organism of all humanity, and every one of us accordingly shares the guilt for every crime, for everything that happens on earth.

Yet they can not any longer be regarded simply and in every respect as merely a part of the mother's organism.

The degree of contrast and richness of experience depends in large measure, as we have seen, upon the environments of which organisms are a part and with which they interact.

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.

Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

Which amounts to saying that the complexification of Matter, at the point it has now reached in the human social organism, is physically incapable of advancing further if the Mind does not play a part, not only with its capacity for technical organization, but with its purposive and affective powers of arrangement and inner tension.