Sentences with phrase «same cellular organisms»

The only seemingly safe assumptions were that viruses will always be smaller in both physical size and genomic content than the simplest bacteria and that viruses had to have evolved after those same cellular organisms, on which their parasitism depends.

Not exact matches

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

Stedman argues that since there are more viruses on Earth — 10 to 100 times more than any other cellular organism — the same could be true on other planets and moons.

However, lipid compositions vary between cells and cellular structures within the same organism, so diet isn't the only factor determining which lipids are manufactured.

Its cellular machinery will execute the program by producing the same protein as the native organism, taking on new qualities, just as in recombinant techniques.

Organisms like zebra fish readily dedifferentiate cells near the injury, undergoing a cellular age regression in which «they form something like stem cells, although they are not quite the same as stem cells,» says Keating.

The researchers discovered that from one stage to another, Capsaspora's suite of proteins undergoes extensive changes, and the organism uses many of the same tools as multicellular animals to regulate these cellular processes.

Hockaday treats plastic clamshell containers with the same detail as protozoa, allowing the spaces within and between shapes to take on the characteristics of a cellular organism.