Sentence examples for primitive eye from inspiring English sources

"I identify and respond to a very untrained and primitive eye," said Ms. Wainhouse, a Brooklyn-based artist.

The algae, known as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, only has a primitive eye that it uses to locate sunlight to help with photosynthesis.

It just so happens that the primitive vertebrates that first developed a primitive eye were small and transparent, and it is postulated that the arrangement of the retina therefore did not matter.

Indeed, the current hypothesis of vertebrate eye evolution involves at least one functional shift even at the organ level, from an early photoreceptive organ performing nonvisual circadian (day night cycle) functions to a primitive eye capable of sight (Lamb et al. 2007, 2008; Table 1).

Shortly after, despite the fact that a primitive eye had begun to develop, wind shear increased, shearing the storm's convection away.

In principle, the Darwinian prototype consisting of a photoreceptor and pigment cell could be formed by assembly of these two cell types into a primitive eye.

The anterior (head) end can usually be distinguished from the posterior end in free-living forms by the presence of two pigment spots, which are primitive eyes.

Starfish use the primitive eyes at the ends of their arms to navigate toward food, say researchers from the University of Copenhagen who observed starfish with eyes moving toward a food source while those without eyes did not.

Other research shows that the marine ragworm, a "living fossil" with primitive eyes consisting of patches of opsin-containing cells at the front of its brain, also expresses the same opsin protein in neurons located on the underside of its nerve cord, and in the hair-like appendages it uses to crawl and swim.

She looked at him with large, primitive eyes.

It is in the clade Stylommatophora, which means that its primitive eyes or eye spots are carried on the tips of its two upper tentacles.