Sentence examples for shape of organisms from inspiring English sources

Children of all groups provided teleological explanations for the color and shape of organisms' feet, artifacts, and natural objects.

The present study aimed to document the teleological explanations of 5- to 8-year-old children for particular features (color and shape) of organisms, artifacts and non-living natural objects.

While many children of all grades provided teleological explanations for the shape of organisms' feet and for the shape of artifacts, there is a decline in the number of children who did the same for the respective colors from the pre-school towards the second-grade group.

Morphometrics is a field concerned with studying variations and changes in forms (i.e., size and shape) of organisms; morphometrics can also be defined as the quantitative analysis of biological forms.

Previous efforts to encode the shape and pattern of organisms have also used formal generative systems, which are based on the iterative application of simple rules (Hogeweg and Hesper, 1974).

For three-dimensional data, however, these two types do not cover all possibilities for complex object symmetry (cf. Table 1, groups C n and C nv ), but they are by far the most widespread types of complex symmetry in the shapes of organisms and their parts (radial and disymmetric floral symmetries, the body plans of cnidarians and echinoderms, diatom cells, etc).

Understanding the laws that control the elaboration of the shape of living organisms is an exciting field of research.

The shape of these organisms is maintained by an array of ∼100 densely packed corset microtubules that underlie the plasma membrane (18).

Considerable shrinking of tissues prepared for histology is expected and therefore the measurements of morphological features cannot be used to precisely estimate the size and shape of live organisms; however we are assuming the effect will be similar across taxa and that relative comparisons among taxa are valid.

For a detailed consideration of these cases and the role of natural selection in shaping morphologies of organisms over long time spans, there is no better general treatment than the classic book of Simpson (1971).

All fossils are preserved as depressions in the bases of beds, implying that the organism, although not mineralised, was firm enough to resist being crushed as sediment accumulated above it; as the soft parts of the organism decayed, the soft muds underneath would be squeezed up into the shell, preserving the shape of the organism.