Sentences with phrase «simple organism like»

«The advantage to using a simple organism like C. elegans is that you can look at questions in great detail,» Bargmann says.

Just as a mountain climber can not jump to the top of the Matterhorn, a (relatively) simple organism like a bacterium can not even conceivably become a complex plant or animal except in very gradual stages.

In even simple organisms like bacteria, however, researchers have observed a distinct molecular traffic flow to reduce head - on collisions between enzymes engaged in different tasks.

This means that its components and functions are similar in diverse species from simple organisms like fruit flies to mice and even humans.

Some simple organisms like bacteria can survive without oxygen, but all higher organisms need oxygen and Earth's biology would probably be a poor sight, if the atmosphere did not contain the 21 percent oxygen, which is essential for the human brain to function, for example.

Brains, even of relatively simple organisms like fruit flies, are teeming with a huge variety of nerve cells that can behave differently depending on their connections, task and even time of day.

How did simple organisms like yeast and worms evolve into ones as complex as birds and mammals?

Not exact matches

In various experiments with various conditions, scientists have been able to create a wide range of cell - like structures of increasing complexity on the road toward a simple self - replicating organism.

I don't mean taking for granted things that are totally unproven, like the fundamental process of complex organisms spontaneously emerging from simpler ones.

@Fred Moore,»... like the fundamental process of complex organisms spontaneously emerging from simpler ones.

In such cases of the simplest organisms, they may respond sympathetically to (or feel) their nearest equal neighbors in a community - like relationship.

Despite that archaeal cells were simple and small like bacteria, researchers found that Archaea were more closely related to organisms with complex cell types, a group collectively known as «eukaryotes».

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

That might not sound like much but populations of many simple organisms can number in the trillions, with new generations appearing every hour or less.

Simpler kinds of living organisms came first, and it took hundreds of millions of years of evolution on Earth to progress from single - celled life forms to complex organisms like ourselves.

A simpler organism is more likely to leave a simpler trace that can be confused with something that is not biological, like a squiggle or a crack in the rock, says Buckley.

It may have once been as simple as an old computer program, merely parroting what we told it, but now it is more like a very complex organism that often follows its own urges.»

There's a lot of attention right now on how neurons fire and interact with each other, but the truth is, we don't even understand how a brain develops — even in the most simple of organisms like C. elegans, a worm with only 300 brain cells.

For instance, in simple organisms such as yeast, when genetic material becomes damaged, the affected DNA strands increase their motion, waving about inside the cell like a sail unfurled.

In other words, there are only so many ways to build a simple animal, and Dendrogramma might have come out looking like the Ediacaran organisms by chance.

«Amy's video is both beautiful to watch on an aesthetic level and beautiful to watch as an illustration of how simple model organisms like Ashbya can give us insights into human diseases like Alzheimer's,» Atkinson continues.

Despite that archaeal cells were simple and small like bacteria, Woese found that Archaea were more closely related to organisms with complex cell types, a group collectively known as «eukaryotes».

In very simple terms, this theory means that our immune system begins to attack our thyroid gland because we are infected with a pathogenic organism (like a bacteria, parasite, or virus), that looks similar to components of the thyroid gland.

Spirulina is a simple, one - celled organism that got its name from the Latin word for «helix» or «spiral» because of its spring - like physical characteristic.