In general terms this means they are primarily meat - eaters, but can
survive on plant material alone if necessary.
I might be able to get my kids to
survive on a plant - based diet, but add «a wide variety» as a requirement and I'm laughing all the way to the butcher.
Obviously there are people who do not just
survive on a plant based diet, they thrived on it and become super healthy.
«Around 40 or 50 spider species have been documented drinking nectar, but this is the first case where a spider has been shown to
survive on plant matter,» says Ken Whitney of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
It's not only possible to
survive on a plant - based diet but to thrive.
An energetic graduate of Wesleyan College, class of 2013, no longer proud of her achievement - packed résumé, cuts off contact with her mother, flies to Hawaii, lives in a hut, and
survives on plants from her small garden.
Welcome to the world of Bagheera kiplingi, the only spider that
survives on plants.
Astronauts on a mission to Mars or beyond may be able to
survive on plants watered with their own urine.
Much of the world
survives on plant protein.
Not exact matches
And he has yet to address the fact that a world wide flood once receded would leave all lakes filled with salt water, not fresh, that mammals could not
survive on and would have also killed off most of the
plant life.
Not to mention a flood as massive as the one described in the bible would have wiped out all flora as well, did noah get all the different types of
plants, trees, algea and the like
on board to make sure those
survived as well?
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I still need to get myself employed, but for now today, I'm content to have
survived my craziest academic quarter yet (and hopefully ever) and be home in my wonderful house with my parents and boyfriend (and animals, of course), with my head above water and still
planted firmly
on my shoulders.
The modern convenience of grocery stores and farms is the only thing allowing people
on a
plant based diet to
survive, nowhere else will you find this.
Since breaking into the
plant based world, I initially recall
surviving on veggie burgers.
I am
planting trees and going to native landscaping
on my property, choosing species that won't need fertilizers or insecticides to
survive and prosper
A year ago the world was shocked by a terrorist attack (Tunisia) and the government was battling to save a steelworks (Redcar); 12 months
on, terrorists have struck again (Brussels) and a steel
plant (Port Talbot this time) is fighting to
survive.
The offspring of Manduca sexta, however,
survive on only a few host
plant species, such as tobacco.
«I think the reason the
plant's surface is super-hydrophobic is because it lives
on the water and requires air to
survive,» Yang Yang, a postdoctoral researcher
on Chen's team, said.
Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian,
plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert
on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that
survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.
Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge
on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can
survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead
plants, animals, and humans.
During the experiment Packham breathed oxygen given off by the wheat, while the
plants survived on the carbon dioxide he exhaled.
According to the authors, this is changing the composition of the forest — mixing formerly low - altitude grasses with high - altitude trees — which could potentially affect the entire ecosystem, particularly the animals that rely
on specific
plants to
survive.
While farmers concentrate
on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild
plants and animals in the diets of
surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.
Worldwide, 1 in 5
plants is already
on the brink of extinction and climate change is only expected to add pressure
on species struggling to
survive.
For humans in the region that is now Wyoming and Colorado between 6,000 and 13,000 years ago — people who foraged
on animals and
plants to
survive — the analysis showed a long - term annual growth rate of 0.041 percent, consistent with growth that took place throughout North America.
The new views of the prehistoric world hinge
on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can
survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead
plants, animals, and humans.
«If, by the time the case gets to the Supreme Court, there is a Trump - appointed justice sitting
on it, the odds of the [current Clean Power
Plant rule]
surviving there do not inspire confidence,» says Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia Law School who directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
Physiological factors, such as a rapid growth and maturation rate, might explain how this line of bird was able to
survive the Cretaceous - Paleogene mass extinction event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago and eliminated approximately three - quarters of the
plant and animal species
on Earth.
According to Galloway, seeds that
survive in the soil makes it possible for some of the
plants that used to be found there to regrow
on the 30 - year - old plantation sites.
«Our discovery of how the Arabidopsis
plant slays its columella stem cell daughters shed light
on the
plant's unique strategy to
survive harsh weather conditions, and demonstrates that the potential of engineering cold tolerance in
plants to help them withstand harsh environmental conditions.
The discovery was made during an analysis of the parasitic
plant Viscum scurruloideum, a species of mistletoe whose apparent ability to
survive and thrive without several genes involved in the primary energy - producing pathway of oxygen - respiring organisms could make it one of the most unusual
plants on Earth.
In the UF / IFAS study, scientists wanted to know how and why some butterflies
survive wildfires and prescribed burns, particularly where the insect feeds and lays eggs
on fire - adapted
plants.
Instead, Bourre lapses into unsubstantiated and alarmist claims about the safety of our food supply, saying: «It's extraordinarily good luck, something almost miraculous, that we're been able to
survive the toxic substances present in our food as a result of contamination,
plant sprays, and medications used
on farm animals,» he maintains.
In compiling its report, the commission drew
on data from the National Peatland Resource Inventory, drawn up by Richard Lindsay of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland to conclude that there are 67 000 hectares of
surviving raised peatland in Britain, but that no more than a tenth of this is close to pristine condition, with a full range of
plants and animals and water tables undamaged by drainage.
The team is now investigating whether other organisms such as
plant seeds rely
on these proteins to
survive desiccation, too.
Andrew Lowe at the University of Adelaide, Australia, says that using green roofs to conserve threatened
plants is a great idea, although not all species will be able to
survive the harsh wind and sunlight
on tall buildings.
Initially the
plants were watered to help them establish, but subsequently they
survived purely
on rainwater.
The butterflies reared
on these
plants had,
on average, 6 times as much sodium in their bodies as those reared
on prairie
plants, and were less likely to
survive beyond the caterpillar stage.
Since the worms
survive on microbes that degrade the sewage, the treatment -
plant starlings consumed natural human estrogen along with three estrogen mimics: DEHP, used to manufacture polyvinyl chloride; DBP, found in nail polish; and bisphenol A, common in hard plastic bottles.
This view of Neandertals gathering
plants and cooking barley porridge challenged the old view that our burly cousins went extinct because they depended too much
on meat, whereas versatile modern humans could
survive on a broader range of
plant and animal foods.
This ancient symbiosis with soil fungi is thought to be how
plants survived on land millions of years before they evolved roots.
DeVries says that when he placed caterpillars
on plants where there were no ants, none of the larvae
survived.
Vandals or
plant thieves have attacked the last
surviving specimen of Ramosmania heterophylla, the cafe marron,
on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean.
For humans in the Wyoming and Colorado region between 6,000 and 13,000 years ago — people who foraged
on animals and
plants to
survive — the analysis showed a long - term annual growth rate of 0.041 percent, consistent with growth that took place throughout North America.
They also have a sweet tooth, relying
on plant nectar to get the sugar they need to
survive.
Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that
survive extreme desiccation
on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular
plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.
His research focuses
on the traits that enable
plants to
survive in the real world.
Other areas of Browse's research involve engineering
plants to better
survive low temperatures, and studies
on how
plant membranes use signaling systems to ward off attacks by fungi and bacteria.
Ironically, it's the mutations that make a
plant less likely to
survive and pass
on its genes - softer seed husks, more flexible stems, tightly held bundles of grain - that make it more useful for cultivation.