Sentence examples for dead organisms from inspiring English sources

As for the alleged evidence for breeding and molting of Loricifera within the basin, an alternative explanation is that the reducing conditions of the permanently anoxic sediments can preserve, for a long time, tissues and organs of dead organisms to the point that the oocytes of some specimens may erroneously appear healthy under light microscopy.

And as far as the study questioning the Viking results, Jakosky says that even a tiny bit of active biology should leave behind enough organic waste and dead organisms for Viking to detect.

"The mold attacks dying or dead organisms," he said.

Hydrophilids are water scavenger beetles and eat various dead organisms and live algae in fresh water.

Many sandstones, limestones and shales far below ground contain natural gas, which was formed as dead organisms in the rock decomposed.

Organic carbon would have been introduced from surface rocks (such as from dead organisms buried in the seafloor), which was consistent with the inferred subduction process.

They feed by a process known as absorptive nutrition, in which the nutritional substrate (e.g., dead organism or other nonliving organic matter) is directly digested by a variety of enzymes that are excreted by the saprotroph.

But one challenge is that sequencing tools can't determine whether the detected DNA came from a living or dead organism.

Donoghue believes the Doushantuo fossils were likely preserved through templating, a process through which bacteria that live in seawater cover the surfaces of a larger dead organism with a layer called a biofilm.

(And thank goodness "alive" was one of the criteria, because no one wants to compete against sexy Enrico Fermi or any sexy dead organism, such as the various genera of sexy Oligocene Megalonychidae).

There is evidence that a dead brain does not necessarily ensure a dead organism [ 12- 14].