Krill feed on the tiniest organisms in the sea, and many, many animals rely on krill. They're one of the most important species in the food web. Mike Burner More Mike Burner Quotes 0
On Earth, the bottoms of these cracks can house organisms in a much more pleasant environment than the surface at large. Obviously, if such communities thrive or thrived on Mars, some of the evidence may well be at the bottom of these cracks. We have much imaging evidence of these terrains on Mars for comparison to the similar terrains here on Earth, not just at the poles but many other high latitude and high altitude places. Penelope Boston More Penelope Boston Quotes 0
These results tell us that even the smallest organisms show genetic variation related to the environment in which they exist. Philip Taylor More Philip Taylor Quotes 0
We have a lot to learn about how these organisms are emerging in our environment. Susan Haseltine More Susan Haseltine Quotes 0
Those are opportunistic organisms that attack stressed trees. The cause of death is old age and other environmental factors. This tree has reached its lifespan: anywhere between 150 and 200 years in this area of the country. We estimate the tree to be between 150 and 175 years old. Vincent Simeone More Vincent Simeone Quotes 0
Being able to disrupt quorum-sensing in these organisms could potentially augment our current treatments, and knowing the structure of this quorum-quenching enzyme will greatly help in developing more effective enzymes for this type of application. Walter Fast More Walter Fast Quotes 0
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time. Edward Hall English Lawyer More Edward Hall Quotes 0
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. Francois Jacob French Scientist More Francois Jacob Quotes 0
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. Karl Landsteiner Austrian Scientist More Karl Landsteiner Quotes 0
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. Daniel Nathans American Scientist More Daniel Nathans Quotes 0
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. Thomas R. Cech American Scientist More Thomas R. Cech Quotes 0
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. Albert Claude Belgian Scientist More Albert Claude Quotes 0
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. Paul D. Boyer American Scientist More Paul D. Boyer Quotes 0
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. Walter Gilbert American Scientist More Walter Gilbert Quotes 0
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. Asa Gray American Scientist More Asa Gray Quotes 0
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. Phillip E. Johnson American Educator More Phillip E. Johnson Quotes 0
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence. Phillip E. Johnson American Educator More Phillip E. Johnson Quotes 0
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. Victor Francis Hess American Physicist More Victor Francis Hess Quotes 0
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. Kevin Kelly American Editor More Kevin Kelly Quotes 0
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. Kevin Kelly American Editor More Kevin Kelly Quotes 0