Sentences with phrase «particular branch of the tree»

The team found two teeth belonging to rat - like animals that date back 145 million years, meaning they're among the earliest creatures on our particular branch of the tree of life to have been discovered.

Not exact matches

The graceful taper of a tree trunk into branches, boughs, and twigs is so familiar that few people notice what Leonardo da Vinci observed: A tree almost always grows so that the total thickness of the branches at a particular height is equal to the thickness of the trunk.

Yet the particular SNP variants documented in these reports would place both women's male fetuses, and their alleged fathers, onto three branches of the tree simultaneously (see one example).

In particular, the highly branched tree - like fungal structures, called arbuscules, normally found inside cells of the host root — which are required for nutrient exchange — remain underdeveloped.

They can also estimate how rapidly the DNA sequence of a particular gene may change, giving a «molecular clock» that puts rough dates next to the tree's branches.

In particular, we are interested in a relatively understudied branch in the Tree of Life, that of the Archaea.

To do this, we assume a model in which the ancestral population of the single sample merges with the European tree at a particular branch at a particular time before the date of origin of the sample.

And indeed, while Dodge says the R / T has a «sport - tuned suspension,» this particular branch of the R / T tree is distinguished mainly by a monochrome paint scheme and red stitching on black leather seats.

This idea from Country Living instructs you to first find an arrangement of pumpkins that works for your particular shelf — the lower shelves can have bigger single pumpkins to represent the tree trunk, while the higher shelves can have two or more pumpkins as the illustrated tree branches out.