Sentences with phrase «single organism»

It could never be found until recently, in a fish tank a few floors below Radboud University's microbiology department: one single organism able to perform the complete process of nitrification.

If scienties found a single organism or cell on another planet they would proclaim WE HAVE FOUND LIFE.

«The Earth itself is alive,» it declares, echoing the «Gaia» hypothesis that Earth is in effect a single organism deserving of the name of a goddess, here «Mother Earth,» a name deliberately chosen for such symbolism.

Thus greatest of Man's scientific triumphs happens also to be the one in which the largest number of brains were enabled to join together in a single organism, the most complex and the most centrated, for the purpose of research.

With the cooperation of other organisms, a single organism alters the environment according to its own purpose (SMW 111).

For this purpose, the single organism is almost helpless.

It's only that men don't know it... Each man is part of the single organism of all humanity, and every one of us accordingly shares the guilt for every crime, for everything that happens on earth.

However, since for Whitehead identity through time is an empirical question, he allows for the possibility of a plurality of souls in a single organism.)

«Whence comes it that different organisms have separate consciousnesses, although their bodies are just as much connected by general Nature as the parts of a single organism are with each other, and these latter give a single conscious resultant?

The life within a single organism or community can not be isolated in any one place: it exists in the process of the whole.

So great was the sense of mutual participation, and the dependence of each person on the life of the whole, that Paul could compare the church to a single organism (I Cor.

A truly Catholic ethic might show more respect for the symbiotic nature of very early uterine life by regarding a woman and her fetus as a single organism, with one informing consciousness — that of the woman.

At this size it is small enough to be ingested by every single organism in the world's oceans — animals as small as krill and salps (plankton feeders) right up to the great Blue Whale.

At this size it is small enough to be ingested by every single organism in the world's oceans - animals as small as krill and salps (plankton feeders) right up to the great Blue Whale.

Engineered microbes come up short in part because no single organism, no matter how much it is enhanced, can beat the strength of a community of individual organisms, each with its own hydrocarbon - consuming specialty.

Another is how cells in a single organism take on different functions despite having identical genomes.

However, the model is not about a single organism causing a single disease.

«The classical view of infectious disease is that a single organism invades and produces an infection,» Seed says.

Adult worker bees cooperate to make the hive function almost as a single organism.

«Bones can tell you that, but a single organism leaves millions of footprints and only one skeleton.»

The trick to finding these coevolving pairs, Sander suggested, was to look at the gene sequence of a protein from not just a single organism, but many.

Janetopoulos and his group study Dictyostelium discoideum cells, which are technically single - cell organisms, but have the remarkable ability to join together into a single organism when times are tough, and migrate to a location where food is more plentiful.

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

«We normally approach genetics by limiting the investigation to single organisms or domains of life,» says Emmanuel Gonzalez, lead author of the study and bioinformatics specialist at the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics at McGill.

Her colleague Sebastian Lücker adds: «After a while, we were able to link all these enzymes to one single organism.

The method can rapidly modify not just a single organism but a whole population, by inserting a desired genetic modification into an organism along with DNA that increases the rate at which the change is passed to the next generation.

Though often appearing as a single organism, reef - building corals are actually colonies of individual polyps.

In the mists of the ancient past, a single organism must have given rise to us all.

«We studied the parasites of some fish, for instance, worms of tilapia, eroding their skin and ending up killing them; in particular, we focus the study of Gyrodactylus, which had three generations of bugs in a single organism.

Maybe it takes all of these studies to be implemented in a single organism to get rid of aging.

Our lead technology, The Trianni Mouse is the only one to do so in a single organism.

The two organisms had become a single organism.

Rather than a single organism, this lichen is a close partnership between a fungus and a green alga.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, some scientists, including Bordenstein, began to define a species not just as a single organism, but as the organism plus its microbiome.

«If this single organism is capable of founding a new and well - adapted population, it has much more potential for inhabiting new biotopes,» Wassmann said.

Tetragametic chimerism occurs when a single organism has two genetically distinct types of DNA.

«The significance is that a single organism is actively capable of reacting and adapting to changes in its environment,» said Marko Wassmann, a radiation biology researcher at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Germany.

This conglomerate that makes up the kefir grain behaves as a single organism; efforts to produce new grains by growing the component organisms separately and then recombining them have not been successful.

At the turn of the 20th century, most diseases were caused by a single organism and then cured by a single treatment.

Various viral and bacterial organisms can cause kennel cough; infection can result from either a single organism or a combination of them.

On hindsight, as far as we know, there is no single organism on earth that will not require protein.

In contrast, growth of a single organism recovered without the use of enrichment broth implies > 105 organisms / ml; this is consistent with an «infected» airway.

Reviewing a 2010 exhibition, Lance Esplund wrote that in Chaet's paintings, «light sparkles through porous forms, which wrap and twist together as if earth, ocean and sky were a single organism.»

As Pakui Hardware, the couple are like a single organism constructing and deconstructing strange, melancholy creatures all over the world.

At times described as grottos, at others cabinets of curiosities, the physical black elements merge disparate parts into a single organism.

The work is an astonishing, unforgettable effigy, simultaneously a single organism and a self - contained universe.

You see it as a single organism, as a living system.»