Sentences with phrase «used by all living organisms»

DNA is the core component of chromosomes, and contains the genetic instructions used by all living organisms and some viruses.

Not exact matches

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

God has no use for the material, and emotions are meant to benefit the life of the physical organism, either by motivating it to act to benefit itself, or to manipulate the other party in the relationship.

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing organisms.

They developed just by using elements available to living organisms, that means without any noble metals.

The finding may lead to a natural, environmentally friendly approach to reducing PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), which were banned for use by the U.S. Congress in 1979 but still permeate U.S. soils, waterways, and living organisms.

This process of activating oxygen molecules by adding electrons is ubiquitous — all living organisms use this trick, and modern fuel cells also work in this way.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

«This work answers a 50 - year mystery that has surrounded how sulfur — an element essential for life on Earth — was used and recycled by living organisms,» he said.

But now a team led by Andrew Rollins at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has used a laser to control the pace of beats across an entire heart — albeit a tiny one — in a living organism.

Parker agrees, adding that the strategic use of ants by other species is an underexplored area of biology: «This is evolution at its most extreme: the more we look, the more these creatures force us to modify our ideas of how organisms make a living.»

An alternative approach, most common for anti-infectives, is to use compounds («phenotypic inhibitors») which have already been shown to be active against the target organism in the living pathogenic cell as chemical leads for improvement by Medicinal Chemistry, towards systemically active Candidate Drugs.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

We address these questions by combining genetics with live imaging, quantitative image analysis and biophysical approaches using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism.

Heavily influenced by biology, this original collection uses abstract ideas of sculpture, traditional forms of jewelry and the human body to create pieces intended to function as separate organisms living with their human hosts.

In the old geopolitical paradigm, Montes explains, «limited energy is competitively captured and consumed by restricted number of organisms, to detriment of the rest; energy is mostly used inefficiently, improperly recycled, and released into environment as polluting waste; energy stocks decline and environment irremediably suffers; living organisms increasingly suffer in a world of diminishing resources.»

However, it is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in Earth's atmosphere without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms, which use the energy of sunlight to produce elemental oxygen from water.

I'm sure some of it is absorbed by living organisms, that may do all sorts of things with it; most mpost of the ocean waters don't have living organsims everywhere to use the sunlight for something.

In 1996, Japanese scientists discovered A. marina living on the light left over by Chl a organisms and able to stretch into the far - red and near - infrared through the novel pigment Chl d instead of Chl a. Research at GISS has quantified the photon energy use efficiency of A. marina in comparison to Chl a organisms, and is now turned toward investigating its light regime in nature to ascertain its kinetics of light use and competitive ecological niche.