Sentence examples for land organisms from inspiring English sources

Adaptation to life on land is a major challenge: all land organisms need to avoid drying-out and all those above microscopic size must create special structures to withstand gravity; respiration and gas exchange systems have to change; reproductive systems cannot depend on water to carry eggs and sperm towards each other.

Sequence identification and analysis showed that some antenna polypeptides, such as Lhcb3 and Lhcb6, are present only in land organisms, suggesting they play a role in adaptation to the sub-aerial environment.

The presence of such red-shifted Chls in the PSI-LHCI supercomplex of land organisms also has consequences on energy distribution: at room temperature approximately 90% of excited states are localized in red forms and then transferred to the reaction center [56].

And humans get into the act through the introduction of transgenes (genes taken from one species and inserted into another) that enable evolutionary jumps that by chance or design land organisms on new adaptive peaks.

Leopold similarly believed there was a large gap between the complexity of the "land organism" and the ability of conventional science by itself to comprehend this complexity.

Nevertheless, site conditions may influence the reactions of soil organisms to land use change, and should be taken into account for evaluation.

A factorial experiment was designed to assess the effects of land use, litter type, soil organisms and season on litter decay in the prevailing natural and agricultural systems (i.e. Cerrado remnants, grasslands and soybean croplands) in Mato Grosso.

This indicates that the OM of the Xiagou Formation source rocks came chiefly from planktonic and land plant organisms, with the OM of part of the source rocks from plankton, and algal and bacterial organisms (Adegoke et al. 2014).

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species--such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend--would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

The spread of life from water to land required organisms to solve several problems, including protection against drying out and supporting themselves against gravity.

Liverworts are considered as the oldest lineage of presently living land plant organisms [ 10].