Sentences with phrase «simple organisms at»

It's a ladder of progress with simple organisms at the bottom and humans at the top.

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David Griffin, on the other hand, agrees with Leclerc that complex physical organisms are more than simple aggregates of actual entities, but maintains at the same time that such a view is altogether consistent with Whitehead's philosophy.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

Nature works at every level to produce more complex and highly organised systems and organisms from much simpler components: this is the theory proposed and investigated by this collection of essays.

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

In the simplest case, the colony evolved into organisms made of cells that were mediocre at both tasks.

New research presented at the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL aims to answer the final question, of whether entry and impact is survivable for simple organisms.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

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

«This study is a beautiful example of how relatively simple bioinspired robots can address [questions] that are difficult or impossible to test in living organisms,» says Brandon Jackson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula.

Iñaki Ruiz - Trillo, a biologist at the Institute for Biological Evolution in Barcelona, believes that in these simpler organisms, integrin genes may contribute to the formation of spore sacs.

An entirely new group of organisms discovered at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean are our closest simple - celled relatives ever found.

In the 1970s, George Streisinger, a scientist at the University of Oregon, was interested in using a vertebrate model organism that was simpler than the mouse and easy to manipulate genetically.

«In those simple organisms, scientists teased out exactly what the repeat region was doing, and the same principles were at work in human cells.

Clocking in at 302 neurons, it is one of the simplest model organisms to possess a nervous system.

«The genomes of even simple organisms such as the fruit fly contain 120 million letters worth of DNA, much of which has yet to be decoded because the cues its provides have been too subtle for existing tools to pick up,» says coauthor Richard Mann, a biochemist at Columbia University in a statement.