Sentences with phrase «species live part»

In fact, about one - third of all marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs.

Not exact matches

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

But perhaps more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

«In order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have lived in the same district throughout the whole time.

At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.

It is hardly possible, therefore, for us to ignore the view that chance has played a major part in the evolution of species as well as in the origin of life itself.

In this regard, we described two types of biologically - based teleologies: (i) an external teleology, where there is a deliberate and conscious setting of goals, those that are generally found among human beings and possibly in higher animals; and (ii) an internal teleology, where there is no self - directed or conscious goal - seeking on the part of living organisms, such as in the natural selection of favorable traits among biologically adaptive species.

Each of these parts is important and has a role in the life of that species and is beautiful in its own way.

Estella's super elephant baby doll is a larger - than - life kids toy that is part of our collection of endangered species toddler dolls.

A contingent of residents who live near the site expressed their outrage at Village Hall last month, voicing concerns that the controlled burns that are part of the plan would disrupt the habitat that is currently home to myriad bird and animal species.

Discussions about eggs, social species of animals and life cycle are all regular parts of public programming days when we are around the quails.

Nor should you, ecologists add: Bark beetle outbreaks should be allowed to happen as part of the forest's life cycle, and the dead spruces provide habitat for many species.

Other members adorn their webs with debris, but Reeves and Pomerantz are here to find out why spiders in this particular species seem to arrange jungle and insect parts into larger - than - life effigies of themselves.

That's a huge blow to the species because some 60 % of the world's gorillas live in the northern part of the country, where the team is working.

Though some protozoan species, which are part of the protist kingdom of life, cause diseases like malaria and leishmaniasis, the protozoa that commonly live in the gut are generally thought to be harmless.

Especially long - lived species where both parents take part in caring for the chicks form lifelong partnerships.

Environmental conditions have a much stronger influence on the mix of microbes living in various parts of your body than does competition between species.

New research has found that environmental conditions have a much stronger influence on the mix of microbes living in various parts of your body than does competition between species.

Elites and nonelites living in the capital and areas of influence had different access to different species, and in some cases even to different parts of certain species,» the authors wrote in the study.

Living in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest and parts of northern Mexico, the New Mexico whiptail is an all - female species of lizard.

A furious debate ensued: the fossil discoverers classify the meter - tall hominin as part of a separate species that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago; others maintain it was a modern human who had microcephaly, in which the brain fails to reach normal size.

Part of the carbon stored this way is used by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which live on the roots of 80 per cent of plant species.

The four right whale species live in distinct locations: around 300 Atlantic Northern Right Whales live in the North Atlantic; approximately 200 Pacific Northern Right Whales live in the North Pacific; about 7,500 Southern Right Whales are spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere; and 8,000 — 9,200 Bowhead Whales are distributed entirely in the Arctic Ocean.

Forest elephants are integral to a functioning forest in Africa, opening up the forest floor and acting as a vital part of the life cycle of many plant species through their role as seed dispersers.

«Reactive oxygen species are an essential part of the biochemistry of life,» says senior author Gyorgy Hajnoczky, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the MitoCare Center of the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

Professor Chris Perry from Geography at the University of Exeter said: «Our study shows that the future health and growth potential of coral reefs is of course in part dependent on rates of coral carbonate production, but that it is equally dependent, on the species that live in and on them, and which act to erode carbonate.

In contrast to some parts of Asia, where many bee species live concomitantly, the western honey bee had been isolated for millions of years and adapted to a range of endemic pathogens and parasites.

We are living in an era with one of the greatest extinction rates in recorded history, which began with wholesale slaughter of entire species for food and has progressed as we have dismembered a large part of what was the dominant incubator of life on earth, the rain forests.

Like rodents, cephalopods are highly adaptable to changes in their environment, researchers say — in large part because most species live just 1 or 2 years, dying as soon as they give birth.

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

Humans and other life on Earth are part of this cycle — for instance, we and other species live off nutrients made with carbon, such as sugars, fats and proteins, and also exhale carbon dioxide and emit the gas with our cars and factories.

In 15 years he has led 170 expeditions and documented more than 500 previously unknown species of creatures, including Microgale nasoloi, a tiny hedgehog - like tenrec that feeds on insects and scurries about the forest floor; Heteroscorpion magnus, a giant scorpion that hides in rock crevices in the northeastern part of the island; and Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi, a tiny, sparrowlike warbler that lives high in the forest canopy.

So that is the Silicus genus and those are truly amazing, and I recommend anyone who is up in [the] Boston area to visit the Harvard Natural History Museum, and I think, they are made by Bulgarian or Hungarian brothers in the early 1900 [s], and theye are amazing reproductions; I mean, if you did not let a botanist touch them and you put them next to the same species of living plant, I bet that a lot of them could not tell the difference because they are down to the minutest part; they are incredibly accurate.

And we know that species as far as part in time asSahelanthropus tchadensis 7m years ago andHomo erectus 2m years ago all lived in forested or open woodland environments.

In this case, the parts are the host and its genome plus the thousands of different species of bacteria living in or on the host, along with all their genomes, collectively known as the microbiome.

The species grow in colonies of just a few up to an impressive display of hundreds of fruitbodies on dead tree trunks or on the lower trunk parts of still living trees.

One said mermaids might be «alien species that lives in parts of the Indian Ocean we've never explored before.»

Neandertal A hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) that lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

An international team of scientists has identified a new species of orangutan, living in an isolated part of North Sumatra.

Neandertal (sometimes spelled Neanderthal) A species (Homo neanderthalensis) that lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

Neandertal (formerly spelled Neanderthal) This hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

Beringia land bridge serving as an intercontinental meeting point Surprisingly, several bear species which nowadays live on different continents have also taken part in the mating and thus gene exchange.

Those against stem - cell research using human embryos because they believe it destroys human life are, for the most part, also against the blending of species because they believe it degrades human life.

Large tuna and other commercially valuable fish, as well as keystone species like sharks and whales, spend parts of their lives in that zone, where temperatures have generally been stable for thousands of years.

This «swimmer pollution» threatens a large part of the coral life in the ocean and indirectly many other ocean species as well.

He followed that film with one hugely disappointing sequel / rehash, 2007's «Hostel: Part II,» and in intervening years has flirted with a host of projects which never came to pass (the Stephen King adaptation «Cellular,» a feature - length expansion of his «Grindhouse» short, a sci - fi film called «Endangered Species,» etc.), stepped in front of the camera for friends («Inglourious Basterds,» «Aftershock «-RRB- and helped bring the Netflix series «Hemlock Grove» to life.