Sentences with phrase «response to environmental stimuli»

Our sense of smell is often the first response to environmental stimuli.

These two molecules allow the arteries to contract and dilate in response to environmental stimuli.

This reunion of biological sub-disciplines enables scientists to understand gene functions that are the basis for the elaborated chemical responses to environmental stimuli that native plants have developed over the course of their evolution.

The pituitary gland receives the signals from the hypothalamus (corticotropin releasing hormone — CRH) and sends its own chemical signals to the adrenal cortex through a hormone called adrenal corticol tropic hormone (ACTH) in order to form the appropriate responses to the environmental stimuli.

«Understanding the dynamic distribution of ABA in plants in response to environmental stimuli is of particular importance in elucidating the action of this important plant hormone,» says Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

Brains and mycelia grow new connections, or prune existing ones, in response to environmental stimuli.

And then in conjunction with that realization has been the observation that in response to an environmental stimulus, whether it's learning something or being exposed to high fat, that turning on a gene might involve hundreds of individual proteins binding to a given gene that's being controlled.

For example, in 2016, in a collaboration with the group of Jennifer Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at SEAS and Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute, the team printed a range of structures that changed its shape over time in response to environmental stimuli.

Intact dogs have reproductive hormones which oftentimes intensify their response to environmental stimuli.

in a room with dark walls, overturned and angled, with monochrome tables and chairs, the suspension lamps sprout from the floor, while table lamps look down from the ceiling, challenging our perception of spaces and our response to environmental stimuli and conventions.