Sentences with phrase «shaped by the organisms»

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Some non-mechanical causative principle of order is required to explain, for example, why the molecules of living beings come together into specific shapes, why organisms develop specific characteristics or have the capacity to regulate their metabolism or readjust and reintegrate themselves holistically when injured or when challenged by their environment.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

Whitehead's suggestion is that all entities whatsoever are understood better as organisms interacting with their environments (composed of other organisms) than as self - enclosed entities passively shaped by external forces.

What makes the process - relational view different from most organismic interpretations, as we have seen, is, first of all, the notion that unique individuals do create themselves and their societies, as profoundly shaped as they are by them, instead of being subsumed by an omnicompetent and all knowing state that functions as the brain of the organism.

Decades of field studies have shown that organisms are shaped by their environment, and by the community of other species that make up their ecosystem.

The threat this time is from nanotechnology and the «emergent behaviors» by which large groups of tiny mindless entities shape themselves into a single purposeful, highly intelligent organism.

But just as living organisms are shaped from the bottom up by natural selection, the economy is molded from the bottom up by the invisible hand.

«This 21st century approach, shaped by the actual biology of the nontarget organisms, is the best safeguard against inadequately informed approval of the next new class of pesticides (and that's something an outright ban on one class of pesticides can't do),» she adds in her e-mail.

The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.

Minute change by minute change — over long periods of geological time — organisms are shaped to the exigencies of their environment.

In 1998 Aizenberg joined Bell Labs as a member of the Technical Staff where she has made several pioneering contributions including developing new biomimetic approaches for the synthesis of ordered mineral films with highly controlled shapes and orientations, and discovering unique optical systems formed by organisms (microlenses and optical fibers) that outshine technological analogs, and characterized the associated organic molecules.

In large organisms with relatively small population sizes, such as humans, only in the order of 1 % of the genomic information is shaped by the environment via natural selection.

Whose well - being is threatened by our changing relationship with the myriad organisms that shaped the evolution of our species?

Diagnosis is made by seeing the sea gull - shaped organisms under the microscope; however, there are so many bacterial organisms on a fecal sample that finding the culprit can be tricky.

26 William Seitz claimed that Gorky's drawings of botanical and biological organisms were shaped by «his own psychic pressures and processes.»

Art critic and poet José Corredor - Matheos cites Harlequin's Carnival (1924 — 1925) as «his first characteristic image, in which the space is populated by fantastic shapes suggestive of living organisms».

Some suggest neolithic or biomorphic abstract sculpture, small organisms or something fidgeted into shape by Francis Bacon.

Simply speaking, volcanoes helped form the atmosphere while living organisms have helped shape the atmosphere to their liking in two ways: firstly by warming the planet to a liveable temperature by producing methane and carbon dioxide during the process of decay of dead matter, and secondly by creating oxygen through the process of photosynthesis by our green friends in the plant kingdom.