Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic life forms»

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Dr. Worden says her collaborators are interested in understanding the origins of photosynthetic life, in part because it played a crucial role in allowing other life forms, including humans, to exist.

To determine if the so - called vent glow can sustain photosynthetic life, Cindy Van Dover, a marine biologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, formed a research team that included Thomas Beatty, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Robert Blankenship, a biochemist at Arizona State University in Tempe, and others.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

Regardless of when the cyanobacteria appeared, it is widely accepted that they comprised the predominant form of life on early earth for some two billion years, and were responsible for the creation of earth's atmospheric oxygen, consuming CO2 and releasing O2 by photosynthetic metabolism.

Structurally, chlorella is a higher life form than spirulina, Spirulina is classified as a photosynthetic bacterium, while chlorella is a plant with a cell nucleus, making it exactly like the advanced fruits and vegetables we eat everyday.

Plant life - history strategies, photosynthetic type and life - forms (Hodgson, Wilson, Hunt, Grime, and Thompson, 1999; Niu et al., 2005; Bhatterai and Vetaas, 2005) are plant characteristics showing variable distribution on both local and wider scales.