Sentence examples for feeds on soil from inspiring English sources

Sex isn't to Caenorhabditis elegans--a 1-millimeter worm that feeds on soil bacteria--what it is to humans.

However, an in vitro incubation study reported that the N2O production rates were higher in termites feeding on soil and fungi with higher nitrogen content, compared to those feeding on nitrogen poor wood [54].

Feed on!

Officials says anthrax cases are on the rise because poor grazing fields are causing cattle to feed on the soil, which sometimes has the disease.

Old World tradition sits snugly in my Italian-American family, like a plant in its pot, the tightly contained roots feeding on the soil (and toil) of generations.

Chitinase enzymes could also help nematodes to feed on the soil fungi.

Three species were chosen to represent a range of functional traits: Lumbricus terrestris (large, mainly detritivorous, makes vertical permanent burrows open at the surface), Aporrectodea longa (medium-large, feeds on both detritus and soil, makes burrows more branched than L. terrestris), and Allolobophora chlorotica (small, geophagous, makes ephemeral burrows below the soil surface).

Dictyostelium discoideum, for example, is an amoeba that lives in the soil and feeds on bacteria.

Dictyostelium discoideum is a unicellular, amoeboid organism that lives in the soil and feeds on bacteria.

Caenorhabditis elegans is a ubiquitous nematode which lives in soil and feeds on bacteria.

In a paper published this month in PLOS ONE, researchers measured the size and density of fairy circles in Namibia and fed data on soil chemistry, moisture content, climate, and vegetation into a computer model.