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living and tissue
All bones consist of living and dead cells embedded in the mineralized organic matrix that makes up the osseous tissue.
In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells, a term he coined, in cork, and a short time later in living plant tissue.
Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs.
Intense radio waves can thermally burn living tissue and can cook food.
This is most obvious in the " far " ( or " extreme ") ultraviolet, and also X-ray and gamma radiation, are referred to as ionizing radiation due to the ability of photons of this radiation to produce ions and free radicals in materials ( including living tissue ).
Energy and carbon enter ecosystems through photosynthesis, are incorporated into living tissue, transferred to other organisms that feed on the living and dead plant matter, and eventually released through respiration.
However, much can also be inferred from its close, living relative, the Razorbill, as well as from remaining soft tissue.
Results of scientific experiments published in 1976 involving Kirlian photography of living tissue ( human finger tips ) showed that most of the variations in corona discharge streamer length, density, curvature and color can be accounted for by the moisture content on the surface of and within the living tissue.
The first detailed account of the interior construction of living tissue based on the use of a microscope did not appear until 1644, in Giambattista Odierna's L ' occhio della mosca, or The Fly's Eye.
The negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions created by ionizing radiation may cause damage in living tissue.
A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue ( specifically the mantle ) of a living shelled mollusk.
Most have been produced by scaling modern animals such as bats and birds up to Pteranodon size, despite the fact that pterosaurs have vastly different body proportions and soft tissue anatomy than any living animal.
Exposure to radiation causes damage to living tissue, resulting in skin burns, radiation sickness and death at high doses and cancer, tumors and genetic damage at low doses.
The effect of non-ionizing forms of radiation on living tissue has only recently been studied.
After the living tissue is crushed into suspension, various membranes form tiny closed bubbles.
However, the effect of ionizing radiation on matter ( especially living tissue ) is more closely related to the amount of energy deposited into them rather than the charge generated.
* September – Robert Hooke's Micrographia published in London, first applying the term ' cell ' to plant tissue, which he discovered first in cork, then in living organisms, using a microscope.
In living tissue, grey matter actually has a grey-brown color, which comes from capillary blood vessels and neuronal cell bodies.
Necrosis ( from the Greek νεκρός, " dead ", νέκρωσις, " death, the stage of dying, the act of killing ") is the premature death of cells in living tissue.
Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation.

living and algae
As in mitochondria, which have a genome encoding 37 genes, plastids have their own genomes of about 100 – 120 unique genes and, it is presumed, arose as prokaryotic endosymbionts living in the cells of an early eukaryotic ancestor of the land plants and algae.
Typically a coral polyp will harbor particular species of algae, which will photosynthesise and thereby provide energy for the coral and aid in calcification, while living in a safe environment and using the carbon dioxide and nitrogenous waste produced by the polyp.
A number of living organisms live in or on bark, including insects, fungi and other plants like mosses, algae and other vascular plants.
Marine algae living in this new sea raised the level of atmospheric oxygen.
Earth's atmosphere, which contains oxygen used by most organisms for respiration and carbon dioxide used by plants, algae and cyanobacteria for photosynthesis, also protects living organisms from genetic damage by solar ultraviolet radiation.
They can also be found on hard substrates living on algae, the phytal environment, and sessile invertebrates ( barnacles, mussel beds, etc.
Maerl is a calcareous deposit, in the main, of two species, of calcareous algae Phymatolithon calcareum and Lithothamnion glaciale which form free-living beds of unattached, branched corallines, living or dead, in Strangford Lough.
Becker and Marin speculate that land plants evolved from streptophytes rather than any other group of algae because streptophytes were adapted to living in fresh water.
It has recently been found that its embryos have symbiotic algae living inside them.
They are typically abundant in streams in their range, both adults and larvae living amongst and feeding on the filamentous algae that grows on rocks, especially those in the marginal shallows.
* Ecosphere ( aquarium ) is a water filled sealed glass ball containing living algae and shrimp in a stable miniature ecosystem.
The protein is produced by almost all living organisms, including algae, bacteria, higher plants, and animals.
While living in the Dutch Republic, Gmelin developed a keen interest in marine algae.
** Description: This is one of the most specialized sea hares ; elongate body with a long " tail " ( as stated by its name longicauda ), adapted for living on floating seaweed ; feeds on Mermaid's Hair, blue-green algae of species Lynghya majuscula ; at times, they are abundant, with several thousands crawling in the sand, traveling in chains (" snail trail ") up to 10 m long
It does this by using diverse communities of bacteria and other microorganisms, algae, plants, trees, snails, fish and other living creatures.
Some sacoglossans simply digest the sap which they suck from the algae, but in some other species the slugs sequester and utilize within their own tissues, living chloroplasts from the algae they eat, a very unusual phenomenon known as kleptoplasty.
Acoels are almost entirely marine, living between grains of sediment, swimming as plankton, or crawling on algae.
They also lack symbiotic algae, generally living below the photic zone, and do not produce any strontium sulphate.
These patches of pink " paint " are actually living algae: crustose coralline red algae.
A Cryptobiotic soil is a biological soil crust composed of living cyanobacteria, green algae, brown algae, fungi, lichens, and / or mosses.

living and is
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.
The mystique of sex, combined with marijuana and jazz, is intended to provide a design for living.
The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.
He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.
And yet, accompanying our gratitude is the realization that we are living in a crucial time.
The housekeeping problems of living in a shelter will begin as soon as the shelter is occupied.
Another growth factor is increased consumer demand for better quality and larger quantities of fabrics that go with a rising standard of living.
The music is always allowed the living space needed to attain its full sonority ; ;
Biological warfare is the intentional use of living microorganisms or their toxic products for the purpose of destroying or reducing the military effectiveness of man.
For example, bright sunlight is rapidly destructive for living microorganisms suspended in air.
Intense interaction is easier where segregated living and occupational segregation mark off a group from the rest of the community, as in the case of this population.
Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.
All living creatures from the lowest form of insect or animal life evidence the power of creativity, if it is only to reproduce a form like their own.
Part-time farming gives a measure of security if the regular job is lost, provided the farm is owned free of debt and furnishes enough income to meet fixed expenses and minimum living costs.
Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

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