Sentence examples for oldest life forms from inspiring English sources
Spirulina is one of the oldest life forms on Earth, consisting of unicellular organisms that use light, warmth, water and minerals to produce protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and other vital nutrients.
Hookworms are among the oldest life forms on Earth, and when they sink their teeth into our blood vessels, they cause nausea, anemia, cramping, and more.
Indeed, Ginkgo biloba is one of the oldest life forms and contains many molecules (like ginkgolides) that do not exist in other organisms and are extremely difficult to synthesize.
A crystal found in a meteorite from Mars is similar to crystals formed on Earth by bacteria and may be evidence of the oldest life form ever found, the researchers say in a study appearing on Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cyanobacteria are among the oldest life form on Earth.
Being the oldest life form, prokaryotic microorganisms have evolved and accumulated remarkable physiological and functional diversity, thereby constituting the world's major reserve of genetic diversity.
Convergent evolution is particularly evident between plants and insects (e.g., Costa Rican hawkmoths and the flowers they pollinate), as both are much older life forms than mammals and birds.
There is no single field of science dedicated to super-old life forms, so she had to invent one, which involved contacting scientists from different disciplines and running down leads that took her as far afield as Greenland and Antarctica.
The pineal gland of older life forms, like lizards, is called "the 'third' eye" and has a lens, cornea, and retina.
We tried to be impressed by the stromatolites, rocky-looking lumps in the bay's hyper-salty shallows that are actually examples of one of the oldest life-forms on earth — bacterial organisms that, billions of years ago, generated the oxygen that allowed complex life to emerge.
It reports that the oldest known life forms on Earth have been discovered in samples of rock collected near a remote watering hole in the middle of the Australian Outback.
