Sentences with phrase «small organisms with»

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.

The lab of Whitehead Institute Member Peter Reddien is introducing the scientific community to the three - banded panther worm (Hofstenia miamia), a small organism with the ability to regenerate any missing body part.

Not exact matches

A small amount of bleach will kill some major disease causing organisms in water making it safe to drink, cook with, or clean pump parts.

Since the population of cells down there is small, most people thought they would just barely be able to eke out a living, that they were organisms with very few capabilities.

Foraminifera, small single - celled marine organisms, form their shells in concert with the ocean's temperature and chemistry.

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».

Many of the drugs we use today are essentially naturally - occurring peptides (small) and proteins (large), both of which are made up with the amino acids found in all living organisms.

But with smaller parties standing to gain political influence, battles over issues such as the regulation of gene - edited organisms and how to cut greenhouse - gas emissions could grow fiercer.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

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.

In a 1995 Science paper, Venter's team sequenced the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted microbe with the smallest genome of any known free - living organism, and mapped its 470 genes.

(Syn 2.0 was an intermediate stage in this process, the first microbe with a genome smaller than that of M. genitalium, which with 525 genes has the fewest of any free - living natural organism.)

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.

It is truly remarkable that the single - lens instruments made by Leeuwenhoek could allow him to see organisms so small, yet even with the best lenses of the day, he could not resolve their internal structures.

With a total of 531,000 bases, the new organism's genome isn't much smaller than that of M. genitalium, with 600,000 baWith a total of 531,000 bases, the new organism's genome isn't much smaller than that of M. genitalium, with 600,000 bawith 600,000 bases.

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

They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant).

The researchers worked with Mycoplasma mycoides (a microbe that infects goats) because it has one of the smallest genetic blueprints of any known self - replicating organism and lacks cell walls, making it easier to insert new DNA.

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

With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.

Thanks to the protected environment of the host cell, these organisms tend to evolve rapidly, with the smallest mutating the fastest.

However, where the traditional model made a strict separation between those that photosynthesize and those that don't, the mixotrophic model blurred those lines, with some smaller organisms consuming prey and some larger ones being able to photosynthesize.

Small changes in an organism's metabolic performance can have major consequences for its success in its natural habitat, where it is in competition with other species and faces losses from predation or viral infection.

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

«What is surprising is that these simple organisms with a very small nervous system perform — or approximate — fairly complex, multistep, long - term planning strategies,» says Sharpee.

Organisms pass their genes to their descendants, often with small changes, and as a result life can evolve over the generations.

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.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

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

Most organisms are not faced with such big predators, so they don't need to see far away and thus get by with smaller eyes.

With just 121 genes (compared with humans» 20,000 to 25,000), the Tremblaya genome is the smallest ever found in an organism that isn't an organelle, a small subunit within a cell that has a little bit of its own With just 121 genes (compared with humans» 20,000 to 25,000), the Tremblaya genome is the smallest ever found in an organism that isn't an organelle, a small subunit within a cell that has a little bit of its own with humans» 20,000 to 25,000), the Tremblaya genome is the smallest ever found in an organism that isn't an organelle, a small subunit within a cell that has a little bit of its own DNA.

Mitochondria are small separate units in the cell, which also act as power plants and provide the organism with energy.

Working together with colleagues in Spain, Japan and Australia, researchers led by Luis Serrano, ICREA research professor and leader of the Design of Biological Systems laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, focused their attention on the organisation of DNA within an organism with an extremely small genome — the pneumonia pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

A living thing that is too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas.

In large organisms with relatively small population sizes, such as humans, only in the order of 1 % of the genomic information is shaped by the environment via natural selection.

Lawson will work with colleagues at the NEFSC to focus on the development of acoustic techniques for sampling zooplankton (animals that are suspended or drift in the water) and micronekton (small but actively swimming organisms) for ecosystem assessment.

Over time, the mouse has become the preferred organism for research into mammalian genetics because of its rapid generation time, small size and the ease with which it can be bred.

microbe Living things that are too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas.

NASA says that Curiosity has found evidence to suggest that Gale Crater was once filled with lakes, rivers, and deltas that contained water for tens of millions of years — long enough that some small organisms could have emerged.

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».

With about 0.9 million base pairs, M. pulmonis possesses one of the smallest genomes of a free - living organism.

microorganism A living thing that is too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas.

microorganism (or «microbe») A living thing that is too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas.

When mildly negative mutations arise in a species with a large population, such as the trillions of bacterial organisms that can fill a small area, they are quickly cleared out by selective forces.

Conclusion: These findings highlight innovations specifically evolved in platyhelminths presumably associated with novel mechanisms of gene expression regulation mediated by small RNA pathways that differ to what has been classically described in model organisms.

«Because the human gut is host to 100 trillion commensal organisms, which together contribute to an enteric reservoir of 1 g LPS (8), we hypothesized that most of the circulating endotoxin may derive from the gut and that a small amount of commensally derived] LPS maycotransit with dietary fat from the gut after a high - fat meal, which thereby increases plasma endotoxin concentrations postprandially»

Life stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Hiroyuki Sanada and it revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars: a small, single - celled organism.

Written by Deadpool and Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film revolves around the six - member crew of the International Space Station as they come into contact with the very first evidence of biological life on Mars — a small, single - celled organism.

Vaccinations work by injecting your dog with a small amount of infectious organisms.

According to Dr. Levy, it is important to control fleas and internal parasites in kittens because they are more vulnerable to these organisms than are adults.b However, care must be taken when treating kittens with certain products because it can be tricky to properly dose such small amounts of drugs, and overdosing can result in toxicity.