life form


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the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism

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"If you are able to reduce the numbers to acceptable levels, a proxy for cleanliness, the assumption is that the life forms will not survive under harsh space conditions," Kasthuri J.
"The same bacterial life forms are alive and well today, living off pyrite and settling in the highly acidic waste waters of mining sites the world over," said Konhauser.
The JCVI team unlocked the door to arbitrarily reprogramming simple life forms, but figuring out how to go through that door and end up where we want remains a largely unsolved scientific challenge.
Wolfe- Simon's team found the bacterium in the Mono Lake in eastern California -- which has naturally high levels of arsenic -- while searching for new life forms. She then grew the bacteria in the laboratory gradually replacing phosphate salt in Petri dishes with arsenic.
The economic and ethical controversies of scientific developments such as the invention of a new life form like the Harvard mouse directly resulted in a new development in U.S.
Obviously human beings have a more complicated life form than the monkey, but possess also some of those characteristics we see in the monkey, but this does not mean that we have evolved from the monkey.
Dinosaurs were the dominant life form on Earth for more than 150 million years.
Savage has created in such memorable passages for us a rodent that is so human that we relate as one life form to another, for all creatures, surely, have suffered such isolation at some point in our lives, unable to express what weighs most on our hearts.
If scientists can find a terrestrial example of a life form completely de-coupled from the sun, the case for life on Europa would be greatly strengthened, he added.
The tautly stretched and distorted contours suggest that some grotesque life form is about to burst out of its cuprous chrysalis and engulf the scrubbed, trim block of the renovated mess hall.
Plants, as a life form, have been privatized under the guise of intellectual property rights.
Here she argues forcefully and, I believe, correctly, that consecrated celibacy is constitutive of Religious Life and distinguishes it as a life form from other life forms in the Church.