Sentences with phrase «phyla known»

Despite its prevalence, the TM7 phylum remains recalcitrant to cultivation, making it one of the most enigmatic phyla known.

Michael Max Asher (July 15, 1943 — October 15, 2012) was a conceptual artist, described by The New York Times as «among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique, an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art.»

Not exact matches

China dig, lowest known fossil strata ever, Precambrian strata, virtually no progenitors to the plethora of phyla existent in the Cambrian.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

For if by its structure Mankind does not dissipate itself but concentrates upon itself; in other words, if, alone among all the living forms known to us, our zoological phylum is laboriously moving towards a critical point of speciation, then are not all hopes permitted to us in the matter of survival and irreversibility?

The answer to the question of whether the sponges or the comb jellies (also known as sea gooseberries) represent the oldest extant animal phylum is of crucial importance to our understanding of organismic evolution.

But when the team broadened the data search to include all fungi, they found indications that genes were being expressed differently — unexpectedly, by a fungus that appeared to belong to the Basidiomycota, a completely different phylum than the known fungal partner.

She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.

Mollusks, we learn, make up an enormously diverse phylum of organisms — an estimated 85,000 known species, with thousands more waiting in the ocean and in museum collections to be described.

Nobody knows how the symbion phylum arose in evolutionary history, or where it fits into the evolutionary tree / thicket / web (you can choose your own metaphor).

Moreover, this burst of animal forms led to most of the major animal groups we know today, that is, every extant Phylum.

Except for the Ediacaran biota, most animal phyla (some that persist and some that did not) appear in the fossil record rapidy and essentially simultaneously at the base of the Cambrian period, some 570 million years ago, an event known as the Cambrian Explosion.

Belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, hydra are part of a group of organisms known as cnidarians which include jellyfish and sea anemones.

The phylum Nematoda, commonly known as the roundworms, included 24,793 described species as of 2011.