Sentence examples for longest organisms from inspiring English sources

They collected thirty-five thousand samplencompassingsing the entire range of drifters, from millimetre-long zoöplankton to the longest organisms on Earth, the siphonophores, whose most famous member is the Portuguese man-o'-war.

Before long, organisms possessing bacteriochlorophylls held in reaction centers and carbon-fixing enzymes began to dominate the microbial landscape.

In contrast to the identification of gene mutations that shift the timing of sleep, this is the first isolation of a mutation that affects how long organisms need to slumber, says neurophysiologist Irene Tobler of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

For example, long-lived organisms optimize long term reproduction, forgoing rapid growth and reproduction, but must also survive to reproduce and are so 'required' to maintain a more effective, and presumably costly, immune system than short lived rapidly reproducing organisms [ 11, 12].

Backcrossing as a species restoration technique has long been considered [19] but rarely implemented, especially in long-lived organisms such as Galápagos tortoises [20].

Trees are long-living organisms which react differently to changing environmental conditions during different life stages and long-term studies are required to assess these reactions.

We have speculated that telomere length changes in TPE might be a mechanism for using cell turnover to monitoring long periods of time (years or decades) in order to coordinate life-history strategies in long-lived organisms [ 28].

It is incredibly stable: we have extracted meaningful DNA from all sorts of long-dead organisms, including mammoths and Neanderthals.

Our economy is based on fossil fuels, the remains of long dead organisms.

The petrified remains of long-dead organisms do not typically preserve their original colors.

Photographer Sussman presents portraits of really long-lived organisms from around the world.