In order to limit the search space of compounds, such database approaches would benefit if information was given in which organisms (coded as taxonomy source) and in which organs or cell types these metabolites were known to exist.
Seasonal growth patterns in which organisms allocate resources to different organ systems e.g.g
There are few environments in which organisms are not subject to some kind of stress.
Compared with areas in which organisms have had the benefit of millenniums to get established, St. Helens remains a system out of whack, researchers say.
The richness of the legacy of organisms that was there, the rapidity with which recovery occurred and the incredible diversity of ways in which organisms were able to survive -- it just astounded us".
Another form of reproduction in protozoans is conjugation, in which organisms such as Paramecium fuse together briefly to exchange nuclear products.
An examination of the way in which organisms have changed since their initial unicellular condition in primeval times shows an increase in multicellularity and therefore an increase in the size of both plants and animals.
Reverse transcriptase makes part of the cell's protein publishing line work backwards, recreating DNA, a molecule in which organisms typically store genetic information, from its less stable and correspondingly less favoured cousin, RNA.
Batesian mimicry can be contrasted to those forms of camouflage in which organisms show an "imitative resemblance" to inanimate objects in their environment, such as the leaves or twigs of a tree.
Phenotypic plasticity is a way in which organisms can harmonize the conflict between stability and variability that is, the way in which the morphological expression of a given genotype varies under different environmental conditions.
Many researchers in evo-devo argue that nature imposes certain general constraints on the ways in which organisms may develop, and therefore natural selection, the means by which function determines form, does not have a free hand.
