Sentences with phrase «small organisms called»

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.

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.

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The technique examines the small molecules, or metabolites, within cells, bio-fluids, tissue, or organisms and their interactions within the larger system, called a metabolome.

Some bacteria, plants and small animals called tardigrades are known to be able to survive in space, so it is possible that such organisms — if present in Earth's upper atmosphere — might collide with fast - moving space dust and withstand a journey to another planet.

So - called RNA viruses are rogues: smaller, fast - replicating shape - shifters, descended from a time that evolutionary biologists refer to as the RNA world, back near the base of life's tree, before today's DNA - based organisms evolved.

Many have compared the gathering to the 1975 gathering in Asilomar, California, where a small group of biologists debated then - new but much cruder techniques for recombining DNA sequences and famously called for a moratorium on such work until concerns over the accidental release of genetically modified organisms were resolved.

At the end of some of the trails was a small dimple called a «terminal impression,» which might indicate the organism's final resting place.

Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists and biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Auckland.

It's a canister smaller than a hockey puck loaded with little organisms — bacteria, plant seeds, even some tiny invertebrate animals called water bears.

We can search for evidence of cells preserved in rocks, or at a much smaller scale: compounds called biosignatures are molecular fossils, specific compounds that give some indication of the organisms that created them.

It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life.

Specifically, there is a small group of hypothalamus neurons, called POMC, that detect and integrate signals that inform on the energy state of the organism and activate the appropriate physiological responses.

The discovery of other, smaller magnitude, rapid greenhouse warming events (called hyperthermals) in the millions of years following the PETM provides further opportunities to examine the response of organisms to global climate change.

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.

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.

Viruses are the smallest of know living organisms, and can only be seen with special microscopes called scanning electron microscopes, that cost millions of dollars (ours is on order).