Sentence examples for be ingested by smaller from inspiring English sources

It takes decades and even centuries for plastic to degrade and even then it is broken down into smaller and smaller pieces that can be ingested by smaller sea animals, such as plankton, with unknown consequences for the marine food chain.

Selenium also bioaccumulates, meaning that it can be ingested by small aquatic animals and then passed along up the food chain to fish and eventually humans.

When larvae are ingested by small crustacean first intermediate hosts, the AsL2 matures into A. simplex third-stage larvae (AsL3) that are subsequently consumed by second intermediate hosts such as marine fish or squid.

Small RNA molecules ectopically expressed in host plants can be ingested by insects and transgenic plants with small interfering RNA have been successfully developed for insect and other pest control [ 33- 35].

Although DFMO is systemically translocated in plants [ 62, 63] and thus small amounts could be ingested by larvae, the effect of inhibiting larval ODC should be small since Mdes-odc transcript levels are already very low in larvae.

It's also small enough to be ingested by a Shi Tzu.

The concern for conservationists is that smaller, particularly plastic fragments can be ingested by marine organisms.

Their small size means that they can be ingested by marine life and have the potential to transfer chemicals to and from the marine environment.

Some studies have linked it to abnormal brain and reproductive organ development in animals while others have shown little evidence that is harmful in the small doses that are likely to be ingested by humans.

Even when it does break down into smaller particles, it attracts toxic chemical that can be ingested by wildlife, contaminating the food chain.

In its simplest form, plastics shred into smaller particles as sunlight makes them brittle and the waves break them up, leaving them adrift to be ingested by marine life.