Sentence examples for examples of plant from inspiring English sources
Filled with water and studded with thick thorns, they are fine examples of plant adaptation to the hot, arid climate of the Paraguayan Chaco.
"A lot of the examples of plant behavior are examples in which the phenomena are pretty easy to observe," said Dr. Richard Karban, a plant ecologist at the University of California, Davis.
This type of muraqqa, a luxury object from the Mughal empire in India, is a patchwork of imagery: portraits of emperors and courtiers, Eastern mystics and Western religious figures; examples of plant and animal life.
Using a few key examples of plant metabolic pathways as case studies, I draw some general conclusions.
The endemic Hawaiian silversword and lobeliad lineages are two of the world's premier examples of plant adaptive radiation.
Two Arabidopsis genes have been characterized as first examples of plant genes homologous to the animal trithorax genes.
"Tobacco, hemlock and poison ivy are all examples of plants that can be hazardous".
Examples of plants that spread by suckers include red raspberry, forsythia, and lilac.
Plants have various proteins that sense relative lengths of dark and light periods during a day (it is actually the dark period they are sensing; examples of plants' light-sensing proteins are phytochrome and cryptochrome).
English ivy and Russian olive are just two examples of plants that are still promoted by some gardeners but have become serious management problems, competing for water, space and soil nutrition in very destructive ways.
She continues, citing examples of plants that respond dramatically to their environment, before cautioning that it's not possible to say at what stage in evolution consciousness kicks in.
