Sentences with phrase «thousands of organisms»

In a community of thousands of organisms, not all will be active at the same time.

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

The challenge is substantial — the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus repository (GEO) alone contains 80,985 public datasets, spanning hundreds of tissue types in thousands of organisms — and the rapid growth in data makes it difficult for journals or data repositories to «police» whether datasets that should be made publicly available actually are.

The gradual reduction in cost made a huge increase in the amount of data possible, allowing us to read the genomes of tens of thousands of organisms.

It has already transformed medicine, allowing biologists to sequence the DNA of thousands of organisms and look for genetic clues to health and disease.

Not exact matches

«We have thousands of plants that are living organisms that we have to maintain.»

Evolution — including what Mr Ham would call «micro-evolution» resulting in variations within a species (like the degrees of melanin concentration in the human species) takes longer than a couple of thousand years in a complex organism.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

Other living organisms indicating the Earth is far more than a few thousands of years old include Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.

Along with the importance of these relationships are several other key features: the nested hierarchies of organisation at hundreds - if not thousands - of different levels on this planet... the same laws of physics and chemistry function throughout the universe, and everything is related to everything else... as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that larger system.

The Dino Sphere is an incredible, living object that's filled with thousands of non-toxic plankton organisms called Dinoflagellates.

Two thousand feet below the sea, in the cracks of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, he and his students recently discovered single - celled organisms flourishing in highly alkaline water close to the boiling point.

Digital organisms that breed thousands of times faster than common bacteria are beginning to shed light on some of the biggest unanswered questions of evolution

The relationship is non-linear because phenotype, or set of observable characteristics, is determined by a complex interplay between an organism's genes — tens of thousands of them, all influencing one another's behaviour — and its environment.

«They can be several thousand base pairs long, whereas in most organisms those regions may be only a couple hundred base pairs long,» he said of the untranslated regions.

In other words, how can organisms resist pressures of a thousand atmospheres, temperatures near boiling or freezing point, or saturated salt brines?

«The honey bee is a highly social organism, so the behavior of thousands of bees are essential for the survival of the colony,» said Nieh.»

«When we deal with environmental or host - associated organisms that live within complex communities — typically thousands of species or more co-occur at the same time — it is very hard to determine what an individual species or cell is up to.

Using the University of Miami's Research Vessel F.G. Walton Smith as a platform for daily dives with the NOAA Marine Sanctuaries Foundation's Mohawk ROV, scientists from the U.S. and Cuba specializing in corals, sponges, algae and fish logged thousands of dive notes, underwater photos and video, documenting the geomorphology, biological zonation and diversity of marine organisms.

The researchers plan to tweak the genome in tens of thousands of different ways to answer questions about what is needed for an organism to function properly.

Each organism can produce tens of thousands of copies of itself within a matter of minutes.

The organism has actually been native to much of the world for thousands of years.

Mollusks, we learn, make up an enormously diverse phylum of organisms — an estimated 85,000 known species, with thousands more waiting in the ocean and in museum collections to be described.

Caltech biologists work to reveal nature's mechanisms — how tens of thousands of components act in concert in cells, how organisms grow from single cells, how the brain maintains its consciousness, emotions, and superb computational capabilities, and what happens when any of those processes goes awry.

Each sample tends to hold hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of single - celled organisms.

- People have a couple thousand species of bacteria and single celled organisms inside of them.

Sometimes this entails routine evaluation of gene expression in a tissue or organism, or other times high - throughput molecular assays involving thousands of samples.

These microscopes bathe cells with light thousands to millions of times more intense than the desert sun, says Betzig — damaging or killing the organism being studied.

Unlike typical eukaryotic organisms, Tetrahymena has two nuclei — a micronucleus that contains normal chromosomes and a macronucleus whose chromosomes are fragmented into thousands of small pieces of DNA that all encode the same ribosomal RNA gene.

Like the gut, the skin is home to over a trillion organisms at any given time, including thousands of species of bacteria as well as viruses and fungi.

Drinking kefir is downing thousands of living and cultured organisms.

Other specialized blood tests that detect DNA of the organism, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence and serologythe scientific study or diagnostic examination of blood serum, especially with regard to the response of the immune system to pathogens or introduced substances, are helpful.

Soon the host cell becomes a virus factory, replicating thousands of new viral organisms to go forward and infect new cells.

Not only is Costa Rica home to an incredible 500 thousand unique organisms — representing over 4 % of all the known species on Earth, the country is also quickly emerging and one of the most animal - friendly ones in the world.

Gill rakes are bristly structures (the thousands of bristles are about four inches long) in the shark's mouth that trap the small organisms which the shark then swallows.

Our coral has been around for thousands of years and is actually a living organism, so we respect the world's second largest barrier reef.

Or you may simply watch, mesmerised as your torch beams draw thousands of planktonic organisms to swarm over your lights.

People are afraid of the concept that maybe they are just here, another one of thousands upon thousands of living organisms — Better make the best of it.

The show seeks to investigate the internal as a force creating change in the structure of organisms through the overlap of nature and society, and is placed in the context of ideas of energy flow and the exchange of matter that Manuel De Landa «s book «A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History» conjures.

Now imagine all of that — and all the plastic you deal with tomorrow, and the next day, and the nest — all of it here thousands of years from now, existing not only across land and sea, but in the bodies of living organisms.

In Lab 6A, you learned that the ocean's biological pump sequesters large amounts of carbon dioxide in shell - building organisms that eventually die, sink and become part of deep ocean sediments for very long time scales - thousands to millions of years.

How not to be awed by an organism that can live for hundreds or thousands of years, rooted in spot, unable to avoid the elements — wind, snow, ice, drought, cold, heat — take what comes and survive — truly amazing.

These organisms have been around for many hundreds of thousands of years and will find a way to adapt or acclimate.»

Gonococci have been evolving with us for thousands of years, and the advent of antibiotics brought destruction upon many of these organisms, but also culled the herd so the strongest could survive.