Sentences with phrase «type of organism»

By making complete sets of genes from different types of organisms available, we can learn much more about how genes are turned on and off, and how genes interact with each other.
But plants and other types of organisms also can leave preserved traces.
Your veterinarian will determine the kind of antibiotic medication used to treat your cat after diagnosing the infection and understanding which type of organism is the culprit.
As a synthetic biologist, she designs and creates new types of organisms from genes.
Your veterinarian typically determines what type of pet antibiotic medication to prescribe only after making a diagnosis and determining what type of organism is causing the problem.
More types of organisms will likely be engineered, the report notes, and the kinds of traits introduced with biotechnology will also increase.
In fact, viruses may be responsible for significant episodes of evolutionary change, especially in more complex types of organisms.
Together, they regulate the abundance of specific types of organisms.
Explain to students that they will be going into part of their local ecosystem to look at its biodiversity by observing as many different types of organisms as they can find.
And if there are no DNA organisms, are there other types of organisms that might occur there in very small concentrations?
The lab determines what type of organism is growing and what medication will most effectively treat it.
Yeast is by far the most common type of organism found in a diaper rash.
BST fossils from the Ediacaran usually fall into two categories: multicellular algae, like seaweed, and fossils that are extremely difficult to classify, often the remains of extinct types of organisms.
In these cases only one type of organisms thrives and rapidly increases in number and, because nobody eats them, they become a threat to the plantations.
There were only two types of organisms floating around, bacteria and archaea — small, single - celled creatures with only the most primitive internal infrastructure.
I'm borrowing the word «symbiotic» from biology, which is used when two different types of organisms live together (rather intimately) to their mutual benefit.
In most cases, drinking water from these sources will not harm your dog, but from time to time a dog can become ill if the waters contain certain types of organisms or hazardous chemicals.
Limited efforts have been made to investigate the importance of selection, where environmental factors determine which types of organisms that get on better than others, of a sperm and the offspring it generates.
Wetlands contribute to a number of important processes including movement of water into streams and rivers, decay of organic matter, release of sulphur, nitrogen and carbon into the atmosphere and the growth and development of different types of organisms.
New dominant orders, capable of supporting new types of organisms can arise.
These are worms or other types of organisms that live in the intestinal tract of animals and shed eggs in the feces.
Cultures may be taken, either of breast milk or of material taken out of an abscess through a syringe, to determine the type of organism causing the infection.
Traditionally, they are grouped by the type of organism being studied: botany, the study of plants; zoology, the study of animals; and microbiology, the study of microorganisms.
New methods will have to be developed for coaxing cells to swap in tailored DNA for each type of organism, but Church and his colleagues say that progress has already been made in yeast and mammalian cells.
The researchers found that the predictors of extinction vulnerability, geographic range size and the type of organism, have remained consistent over the past 23 million years.
This new technology has major implications not just for plant biology, but also for cellular biology research in every type of organism, including humans.
The next step for the researchers is to expand their trials to include a far greater number of synergists and types of organisms and build a comprehensive model that can be used more broadly and in multiple contexts.
If you have different types of organisms, do you have better outcomes?»
In this interactive exhibit, count up the different types of organisms that pass through a cubic foot of land or water in a single day in various habitats, including a coral reef in French Polynesia.
In the last several years New York University graduate student Julia Maritz and her colleagues at N.Y.U.'s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology analyzed genetic material on 80 $ 1 bills and found roughly 3,000 types of organisms, including bacteria linked to pneumonia, food poisoning and staph infections.
Scientists once thought that every type of organism occupied a distinct branch on the tree of life; new species evolved as their genomes slowly mutated or recombined through sex.
When the number supply was low, only one type of organism could survive.
Working with a total of 988 microbes, they found no major change in the types of organisms causing endophthalmitis.
Green algae evolved after one type of organism was invaded by cyanobacteria, and brown algae evolved after a different organism was invaded.
However, the difficulty with which types of organisms are cultured implies that the grown species may be overrepresented by both cultivation and plate counts.
Cumulatively, and over time, these mechanisms lead to widespread gene flow between very different types of organisms, and recent advances in genomics show that transgenes are common and widespread in most, if not all lineages.
It has been demonstrated that the GFP does not require a co-factor to become fluorescent and that it can be expressed in any type of organism.
«Nitrogen levels have an effect on the types of organisms that you'll find, and the types of metabolisms that they have,» said Joshua Sackett, a graduate research assistant with the Desert Research Institute and doctoral student in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Heather (from Mommypotamus) talked about the benefits of these types of organisms for people with IBS or digestive disorders in this post:
Furthermore, you can have both types of SIBO at the same time caused by two different types of organisms that require two different types of protocols.
«They're learning about marine biology in general — so the different types of organisms that we find, how we identify marine creatures and fish using classification keys and the importance of things like key species,» Radburnd says.
This test allows the veterinarian to identify the type of organism causing the infection, such as bacteria or yeast, as well as look for other abnormalities, such as ear mites.
When these types of organisms produce a case of kennel cough, a harsh and persistent hacking sound will usually be the first sign of infection to a dog owner.
Knowledge of the most commonly isolated microorganisms in the canine eye in a geographic area and their antibiotic susceptibility is important to provide the most efficacious antimicrobial treatment (Gerding et al., 1988), because significant geographic differences occur in the types of organisms present (Slatter, 1981; Gerding and Kakoma, 1990).
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