Sentences with phrase «yet simple organisms»

When I was a student, I became interested in microbes because they were presented to me as these very interesting yet simple organisms, which scientists could isolate to understand how they worked.

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Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

Earth is billions of years old and billions of people have lived here so far, and yet this simple, unhappy - looking graduate student is the first organism in history to know about the interaction between these proteins.

Technologies to visualize neurons in live subjects — as well as process such gargantuan volumes of data — do not yet exist, so only post-mortem studies in simpler organisms are even presently imaginable.

«The genomes of even simple organisms such as the fruit fly contain 120 million letters worth of DNA, much of which has yet to be decoded because the cues its provides have been too subtle for existing tools to pick up,» says coauthor Richard Mann, a biochemist at Columbia University in a statement.