This energy is then used for their own growth, reproduction, and other metabolic processes. Consumers play a crucial role in the food chain as they obtain energy from producers (such as plants) or other consumers. They are distinct from producers, which are organisms that produce their own ...
Cellgels inherit the ability of living cells to sense and respond to their environment, showing autonomous tissue-integrative behaviour, mechanical maturation, biological self-healing, biospecific adhesion and capacity to promote wound healing. These living features also enable the modular bottom-up ...
Organisms in the kingdom Fungi are characterized by being multicellular eukaryotes that obtain nutrients through external digestion, as they are heterotrophic and absorb nutrients from their surroundings. They have a cell wall made of chitin and reproduce through spores. Fungi lack chlorophyll and do ...
Various infectious organisms, including two species of fungus from the genus Nosema, have received most of the blame; but taken alone they do not account for the symptoms of CCD. (more…) June 17, 2012 Build, Design Exile Mobile Homes Exile’ is Cuban artist José Ángel Vincench’s ...
There is no structural evidence that thlobiotic nematodes can utilize the energy in sulphde or of how they can avoid the toxic effect of sulphide from their surroundings. Wieser (1959), Hopper & Cefalu (1973) and Ott et al. (1982) described different species of Stdbonematinae with ...
Nevertheless, the nexus between culture and biology still needs to be discussed. Drawing parallels between organisms that modify their environment and humans who shape their surroundings driven by cultural "memes," we emphasize that culture does not merely influence biology鈥攊t resides within it. ...
Nonetheless it could mitigate part of the effects on sleep behaviour of birds and mitigate other effects on a large diversity of other organisms48,56. Scientific Reports | 5:13557 | DOI: 10.1038/srep13557 5 www.nature.com/scientificreports/ In general, the effect of artificial light on sleep...
Collembolans are a globally significant group of organisms that play a major role in soil functioning [18], particularly through their effect on the rate of litter decomposition and nutrient fluxes [19].F. candidaprefers grazing on fungi growing on organic surfaces rather than on soil particles ...
Although the complexity of synthetic cells has continued to increase in recent years, chemical communication between protocell models and living organisms remains a key challenge in bottom-up synthetic biology and bioengineering. In this Review, we discuss how communication channels and modes of signal...
Early in the century, Oparin (1924) proposed a repeatedly republished life-origination hypothesis. It was formulated before the revelation of nucleic acids as the transmitters of hereditary characters for living organisms and was based on the notion that just protein-like substances were the precursors...