Organisms Quotes

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

This high degree of organization of prokaryotic [organisms that lack nuclei] genomes is a complete surprise, and this finding carried many implications that biologists might not have considered before. These findings show that evolution of prokaryotes is constrained not just by variations in the content of genes, but also by the intricate ways in which those genes are arranged on chromosomes.

All of these organisms exhibit this property of latency. They can remain dormant until immune defenses are lowered. It's a significant medical problem in endemic regions.

You would find a few organisms that just grew like crazy. We call them 'weeds' because they take advantage of the luxurious conditions found in the lab but they might not be the ones who are important out in the real world, where it isn't so luxurious.

[Finding living organisms, however, is a remote possibility.] It is not out of the question, but it is certainly not the first place I would look, ... It's really very cold.

The most advanced organisms at the time were bacteria, so there isn't a big extinction event you can identify as cut-and-dry as the extinction of the dinosaurs.

I have strong moral objections to creating human organisms in order to harvest cells from them in a way that destroys them. But those objections simply would not apply to proposals that would not in fact involve human organisms.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

These single-celled organisms are extremely sensitive to environmental changes.

The deep ocean floor is a new world, and it contains microbes and minerals and plant organisms that are quite extraordinary. Micro-organisms in particular can be used to provide new pharmaceutical treatments for a variety of human ailments.

Amphibians are one of the latest groups of organisms to show us changes are afoot on the landscape. They're susceptible to a lot of things that would be good for us to pay attention to. If you're losing them, you start to look at why. Is the landscape changing, and for what reasons? And are those reasons going to affect us, too?

Once people realized they could tag and they could follow organisms it just became a standard method. And once anything becomes standard, people sort of forget that it is an invasive treatment and it might have implications on the animals being tagged.

More drugs come from soil organisms than from any other habitat on Earth. Soil will be the richest environment but, technically, it is also the hardest. If we can do this with soil, we think we can do it with material from any environment.

You're talking about transgenic organisms. And there's a lot of resistance to that in the human population.

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There's going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

There would have been climate change and the organisms were challenged by a new environment.

In 1967 I unraveled my death urge... and realized that God,or micro-organisms or the devil weren't trying to kill me... Then I felt safe in the universe for the first time.

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.

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.