Sentence examples for hardy organisms from inspiring English sources

Forming great, unbroken mats across the tundra, lichens can pioneer life on barren rock, even breaking it down into soils in which less hardy organisms can grow.

With each iteration of study, we find that these microbes and other hardy organisms living deep within the Earth are more important on the global scale than we previously believed.

Returning to the same patch of sea floor after 13 months is a rare luxury, and we placed dozens of experiments around the methane vents to see how quickly various materials are colonized by the hardy organisms of the deep sea.

This suggests that the hardy organisms "have figured out how to adapt to this extreme environment over relatively short evolutionary time scales".

Hardy organisms like MRSA evolve to withstand the drugs; then, through vectors like the unwashed hands of health care workers, they hitch a ride from patient to patient, hiding like terrorists among the natural bacteria that all humans harbor.

For what "Belfast, Maine" really wants to do is capture a deeper, more timeless sense of the town as a hardy organism more closely tied to nature than many other more affluent American communities.

First, it is a much hardier organism than the classical biotype, and it can survive for long periods of time in aquatic environments.

In this "moist greenhouse," the planet would be too hot for complex surface life, but a few hardy marine organisms and microbes could soldier on.

What if similar hardy micro-organisms are thriving today on Mars' cold, dry, and irradiated surface?

We don't have a Martian bacterium we can experiment with, not yet, so we keep trying to see if some of our own hardy micro-organisms have the ability to grow at another location," Schuerger said.

If any Martians did live there, they probably bore a passing resemblance to Earth-bound critters called chemolithoautotrophs: hardy, single-celled organisms that make use of chemical energy rather than sunlight and which are able to create complicated biological molecules from elemental ingredients.Evidence of habitability is not, of course, the same as evidence of habitation.