Sentences with phrase «tiny plant pieces»

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Using a laser and a tiny piece of reflective material on the leaf of the plant, Cocroft was able to measure the movement of the leaf in response to the chewing caterpillar.

Archaeologists can now detect ancient maize even when cobs and kernels have long rotted away, via tiny plant fragments called phytoliths, minute pieces of silica that build up in plant tissues.

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

They were full of falsehoods, they were full of lies and to cut a long story short — I took a sketchbook and I had linear drawings of wild cucumber plants and I sank one of those images — a silhouette of it — into a tiny piece of cardboard.