Sentences with phrase «small organisms»

Biology, he said, was the study of large organisms and physics was the study of small organisms.

New research shows that, no matter where we're buried, the same bacteria, fungi, and other small organisms in the soil ransack our bodies, as if they were just waiting for our corpses to arrive.

The four - part show, or «exposure to witnesses,» as Huyghe calls it, examines the ways that spiders and other small organisms like flies and rats change, grow, and adapt over time.

Success of this project will provide answers to a number of major evolutionary questions, and will help develop innovative third - generation sequencing approaches for small organisms with large genomes, said Johanna Cannon.

Most of the time, the Pfiesteria dinoflagellate is a nontoxic predator that feeds on small organisms such as algae, bacteria, and small animals.

Asexual reproduction is efficient and reliable in many small organisms, so why will some suddenly decide to mate?

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It's home to fish like bluegill and alewife, along with smaller organisms like water fleas, algae, and bacteria.

A host of much smaller organisms grow attached to the grass blades such as foraminifera, bryozoa, nerites (Olive and Virgin Nerites) and small coiled worms (serpulids).

With feeding arms «adapted to grope for small organisms living in anoxic mud» and a cutting beak «appropriate for an opportunistic scavenger», the animal expends little energy in hunting and feeding.

At that time, there were lots of nutrients in the ocean water there, because small organisms called diatoms, which have silica shells, were able to thrive.

«Even small changes within an ecosystem can have detrimental effects: Interactions between small organisms are «keystone» interactions that scale up to shape whole ecosystems.»

The studies showed that acid rain starved lake trout by killing smaller organisms that made up their main food supply.

The idea was already around, indeed Leibniz had already said (long before the general acceptance of cells), that visible organisms have invisibly small organisms as constituents.

In the case of an animal, the mental states enter into the plan of the total organism and thus modify the plans of the successive subordinate organisms until the ultimate smallest organisms, such as electrons, are reached.

The first of these new ideas carries forward a suggestion from earlier works, that science should postulate small organisms as its units of reality.

We actively import and spread exotic plants and animals (and whatever smaller organisms they carry).

New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals that interactions between relatively small organisms are crucial to mutualistic relationships in an ecosystem dominated by much larger organisms, including trees and elephants.

In examining the cloudy water with one of his microscopes, Leeuwenhoek was surprised to find very small organisms swimming around.

The secret is in the baleen, a complex filter - feeding system that allows the enormous whales to strain huge volumes of saltwater, leaving only krill and other small organisms behind.

In the dark deep, sperm whales and other animals become «visible» because their movements disturb small organisms that give off light, similar to a flashing firefly.

«Gently rotating small organisms, cells for the first time in a microfluidic device.»

«Bivalves such as oysters are also filter feeders that obtain their food by pumping water through their system and filtering small organisms,» she said.

diSPIM technology enables rapid 3D imaging of samples ranging from single cells to small organisms over the course of hours to days.

Bighead carp eat small organisms such as zooplankton.

Together, the extremely small organisms, or «nanoplankton» that perform these essential services form the «nanobiome.»

Apart from all visible life that surrounds us (humans, animals, plants, fungi, etc), a vast unseen world exists that comprises of microscopically small organisms: microbes.

«Harder to see are the poisonous effects of plastic related chemicals, or how the tiniest pieces affect small organisms such as plankton.

Yes I mean little because you are a tiny particle, called a mote, that needs to absorb smaller organisms in order to grow while fending off predators and other challenges.

Amoeba Generator is a simple that game where you play as an Amoeba who must grow in size by collecting smaller organisms and avoid larger ones.

A warmer climate is generally expected to favour smaller organisms and steeper body - mass — abundance scaling through food webs.

The same housing works for many small organisms, such as blue - leg hermits or any crab or snail that will not crawl out of an uncovered box.

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

We shall then realize what White - head saw long ago: that biology is the study of large organisms, and physics is the study of smaller organisms.

They are Bordetella Bronchiseptica, Canine Parainfluenza (CPI), Canine Adenovirus 1 (CAV - 1), Canine Adenovirus 2 (CAV - 2), Canine Distemper Virus (CDV), reovirus and small organisms called mycoplasma.

Morris Animal Foundation - funded researcher Dr. Viveka Vadyvaloo, at Washington State University, is investigating the possibility that the plague bacteria Y. pestis is kept alive during non-disease cycles by very small organisms, single - celled animals called amoebae, living in the soil in plague - endemic areas.

Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.

Each hole is its own tiny world, an ecosystem unto itself that supports a host of life - forms, including tardigrades — or water bears — and other small organisms.

Evolutionary changes can also be seen in small organisms such as viruses and bacteria — this is why you need a new flu shot each year — the virus changes (evolves).

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

Larger organisms are complex unities of smaller organisms.

Biology is the study of larger organisms; whereas physics is the study of the smaller organisms» (Whitehead 1925, p. 150).

Biologist Ana Sofia Reboleira of the University of Aveiro in Portugal, who has been exploring caves since she was a teenager, recently searched Krubera - Voronja for the rare, small organisms that populate it — a cold business, since temperatures in the pitch - black depths hover just above freezing.

«Whatever species you look at, there might be another, smaller organism that is within it and participating in its evolution and ecology.»

This way these small organisms (between a few millimetres and a few centimetres in size) help return the organic material stored in bones to the ecosystem.

Studies of streams and rivers in California, Texas and Illinois suggest that the pesticides might be wiping out small organisms that live in the waterways and form the base of the food chain.

PAHs could stunt growth, an effect that could ripple through the ecosystem: smaller organisms are picked off by predators at a young age, leaving less food for larger fish such as red snapper and bluefin tuna.

Thanks to the Internet and to advances in digital photography, we have the ability to put online superb images of even the smallest organisms.

Small organisms (meiofauna) inhabiting sediments in the deepest (> 10,000 m) ocean trenches are almost unknown.