Sentence examples for primitive seas from inspiring English sources

In the beginning there was RNA (probably), RNA that snapped together spontaneously from the molecules afloat in the primitive seas.

This problem was to be solved very early in evolution since the first cells inhabited the primitive seas [ 1, 2].

These findings suggest the presence of HCO3- in primitive seas and its use as one of the main carbon sources for the first organisms.

Such is the case with the divergence of the enzyme phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase (4.1.1.21) from N5-carboxyaminoimidazole ribonucleotide mutase (5.4.99.18); the divergence of these two enzymes supports the hypothesis of the origin of life in primitive seas with high levels of HCO3-.

Primitive sea stars feed by sweeping organic particles that collect along the arm grooves into the mouth on the underside of the disk.

Jesse Jarnow, one of the curators, said the name was inspired by a display he saw at the American Museum of Natural History on the Ordovician period, an era that ended about 445 million years ago, when the earth was dominated by primitive sea creatures.

Yet the primitive sea anemones are selective feeders in that, capable of paralyzing relatively large prey with their stinging cells, they do not discharge them until informed by chemical and tactile senses that prey is present.

The primitive sea creature, described today June 255) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, could even change its body shape from slender to stumpy.

Interestingly, a comparison of gene sets of advanced vertebrate animals, primitive sea anemones and other invertebrates, showed extensive loss of genes in insects and nematodes [ 46, 47].

Richard Gordon, the chairman of the Red Cross, which often deals with these tragedies, said the maritime industry in the Philippines was so primitive that sea disasters were inevitable.

Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 16 genera with 57 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (one genus, Laticauda, with five species).