Sentences with phrase «plant and animal matter»

In high - latitude areas like Alaska, frozen ground known as permafrost can trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane produced by layers of decayed plant and animal matter.

One of those «air pollutants» on the table is carbon dioxide with the listed sources as «oxidation of plant and animal matter» and «combustion.»

Humans are omnivores, which means we eat both plant and animal matter.

This mineral is found in large quantities in both plant and animal matter.

Organic acids such as humic and fulvic acid are some of the components resulting from this natural process of decay of plant and animal matter.

The energy in fossil fuels is also a result of photosynthesis because fossil fuels are formed from the remains of plant and animal matter.

Humus is dark, organic material that forms in soil when plant and animal matter decays.

Those ecosystem changes slow decomposition that normally recycles plant and animal matter back into the ecosystem after organisms die, resulting in more organic matter accumulating in seafloor sediments, the researchers report February 10 in Science Advances.

Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and coal or natural gas extraction.

James A. Dumesic and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison developed a platinum - based catalyst that breaks down glucose extracted from plant and animal matter into hydrogen gas, carbon dioxide and methane.

After several months of research, he computed that a single gallon of gasoline requires about 196,000 pounds of primeval plant and animal matter, buried and compressed over millions of years.

Fungi are the primary decomposers of dead plant and animal matter in many ecosystems, and are commonly seen on old bread as mold.

Known more accurately as soil organic carbon, it is part of soil organic matter, which is made up of decaying plant and animal matter, and essential elements for good plant growth such as calcium, phosphorous, and nitrogen.

Not exact matches

Beyond Meat is taking the proteins from plant matter and resetting their bonds using heating, cooling, and pressure, so they mimic animal muscle.

Matter, a plant or an animal can not enter the historical dimension because it does not have self - consciousness and freedom.

He then went on to tell us about the history of the universe from the huge explosion of matter and energy (the Big Bang) through the formation of stars and then rocky planets on which complex chemicals were produced, leading to the synthesis of the first molecules of life and the emergence of the plant and animal kingdoms.

In the latter system of thought, nature separates levels of reality according to a hierarchical arrangement — God, angels, man, animals, plants and inanimate matter.

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

the Big Bang theory (which postulates that, soon after the creation of matter and energy, an explosion began the expansion of the universe), to the hydrologic cycle, to the classification of animals and plants, to medical and hygienic statements in the Torah, to environmentalist statements, to psychological and sociological observations

In Genesis chapter 1, the presentation of the six days of creation is not capricious but progressive: from non-living matter, to living plants and animals, culminating in Adam and Eve, as the glory of creation.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

«No matter how you slice it the science will say, plants are good for you and better for the planet than an animal - based diet.»

These include natural (or «non-synthetic») materials that are derived from mineral, plant, or animal matter and do not undergo a synthetic process [34].

As plants build up organic matter, soil animals feed on them and their debris, whilst microbes decompose the complex organic compounds to their mineral components and to carbon dioxide.

And, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to seven: People in Nature, Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, Landscapes, and new this year, TravAnd, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to seven: People in Nature, Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, Landscapes, and new this year, Travand Fungi, Landscapes, and new this year, Travand new this year, Travel.

For 2014, in an effort to offer participants an even wider choice in subject matter, the number of submission categories has grown to six: Mammals will now be a stand - alone category, in addition to People in Nature, Birds, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, and Landscapes.

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Organic practitioners regard the farm as a macroorganism in which all the parts — the soil minerals, organic matter, microorganisms, insects, plants, animals, and humans — interact to create a coherent and stable whole.

Carbon is the major chemical constituent of most organic matter — plants take it in; animals eat plants, die, and decompose; and plants take it back in, ad infinitum.

The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.

Organic matter — the decaying remains of once - living plants and animals — becomes trapped by the roots of aquatic plants.

The researchers looked at domestic and international trade of corn, rice, soy and wheat, along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle, goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter), pork and poultry.

By decomposing organic matter, these pint - size fungi can influence carbon balances and the types of nutrients available to plants and animals.

For figurative subjects such as animals, plants, and insects, you can just draw from real life, but you will need to invent ingenious ways to represent matters such as energy, motion, magnetism, or electricity.

The organic matter in soils, sediments, and water may come from decomposed land plants, dead plankton (tiny marine animals and plants), or burned wood or fossil fuels, and it offers clues about Earth's past and present environments.

Why It Matters: The findings, published in Science, have implications for decades - old questions in science and technology such as how animals and plants grow minerals into shapes that have no relation to their original crystal symmetry.

Humic substances, which refer to a mixture of soil organic matter resulting from the decomposition of plant and animal residues, contain three fractions — fulvic acid, humic acid and humin — that have been shown through previous research to have a beneficial effect on plant root initiation and elongation.

No matter how you eat, getting a higher Plant / Animal ratio will provide your body the vitamins, fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients it craves.

No matter how many minimally processed, whole, nutrient dense plants and animals you eat, however, you still need to understand one more principle.

«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native diets and diets characterized by the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr. Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor of safety in the matter of bodybuilding material, as the displacing foods» (emphasis added).11 The foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products, whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.

A lot of people simply do not realize most animal species evolved to get most of their caloric energy needs from fat, even ruminants actually receive their nutrition and calories from the fatty acids generated by the bacteria in their rumen consuming the plant matter.

They are one of the major recyclers of the plant world, turning old, decaying matter into a source of nutrients for other plants and animals.

No matter if you follow a Traditional diet, Paleo, Primal, Vegetarian, Vegan, or GAPS diet, this «Real Food» guide assesses food quality on proven nutrition principles including plants and animals raised in healthy ways on mineral - rich soil; and grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables that are packaged in ways that preserve and enhance their naturally occurring nutrients.

For 50 I'm pretty grok and rarely eat anything other than animal matter and some plants.

No one ever developed type II diabetes by eating mainly animal matter and some plant matter.

that no matter where you get your calories (Fat, protein or CHO) it only matters if it's from healthy whole plant foods and not processed foods or animal products..

So if you made a sudden change over to a very high fiber WFPB diet from a high fat / high protein animal food based diet, then you might still have the intestinal fauna and flora of a meat eater and it will take a while for those that best suited to processing plant matter without overproducing gas and especially malodorous gasses to become dominant.

See, to the metabolic systems engaged in protein production and repair, it doesn't matter whether amino acids come from animal or plant protein.

No matter how you slice it, plant - based diets are kind to the earth and kind to animals.