Sentence examples for minute organisms from inspiring English sources

Brachiopods feed on minute organisms or organic particles.

Lophophore hypothesis, viewpoint that conodonts, small toothlike structures found as fossils in marine rocks over a long span of geologic time, are actually parts of and supports for a lophophore organ used for respiration and for gathering or straining minute organisms to be used as food.

Other midge larvae live in silken tubes, either filtering minute organisms from water for food or preying upon larger creatures.

The coral turns white when it expels the minute organisms that live within its hard limestone core.

For the most part these are minute organisms that thrive in extreme circumstances -- on scree slopes, in limestone formations, in the crevices of a cliff face.

Each pore is associated with an external ciliated gutter that collects minute organisms and detrital material as the medusa rests mouth-upward on the sea bottom.

These fishes feed at night and have bright photophores, or bioluminescent organs, at the tips of their lower jaws; they appear to use these organs much like tiny searchlights as they feed on planktonic (minute floating) organisms.

With wings spread, they patter over the water, "walking," and pick up minute marine organisms.

The largest species, the basking shark and the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which grow to 12 and 18 metres (40 and 60 feet) respectively, subsist on minute planktonic organisms and on small schooling fishes.

Perhaps the overarching medical advance of the 19th century, certainly the most spectacular, was the conclusive demonstration that certain diseases, as well as the infection of surgical wounds, were directly caused by minute living organisms.

Observing that the green hue faded when he dried the animal's skin out over a fire, Seeman speculated that the greenness might be "owing, at least in part, to the fact that the hair becomes covered with minute cryptogamic organisms, the damp climate and thick gloomy forests favourable to their growth".