Microbial transformation with plasmid DNA is neither parasitic nor symbiotic in nature, because each implies the presence of an independent species living in a commensal or detrimental state with the host organism.

The Idirans ' decision to go to war is described as being founded in their philosophical, moral and religious distaste for the almost symbiotic nature of the Culture and the threat that their artificial intelligences were considered to be posing to the primacy and significance of biological life in the universe.

In nature Homo sapiens cannot survive without the bacteria, which are a separate species, but form a symbiotic relationship with the host organism.

Although experimental and theoretical physics are concerned with different aspects of nature, they both share the same goal of understanding it and have a symbiotic relation.

Everything relates to one another, reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature.

Their way of life is based on a symbiotic relationship with nature: living creatures comprise their machines, vehicles, clothes and more, particularly massive mutant insectoids and serpents, from which they are descended.

In ECOTRON, a laboratory in the UK where many of the biotic and abiotic factors of nature can be simulated, studies have focused on the effects of earthworms and symbiotic bacteria on plant roots.

Community youth development, or CYD, is a philosophy emphasizing the uniquely symbiotic nature of youth development to community development by situating the two practices in a common framework.

According to this view, Vahiguru is a compound of two words, one from Persian and the other from Sanskrit, joined in a symbiotic relationship to define the indefinable indescribable Ultimate Reality.

The Trill are a fictional species of symbiotic life forms, depicted in the Star Trek media franchise.

* Trill ( Star Trek ), two symbiotic races of aliens in the fictional Star Trek universe

* In 1991, the episode titled " The Host " is a story in which Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) falls in love with Odan, a member of the Trill a symbiotic lifeform that uses a humanoid as a host.

The brand is a consequence of and has a symbiotic relationship with the business model since the business model determines the brand promise and the brand equity becomes a feature of the model.

In " Parasites Lost ", Fry becomes infected with symbiotic " parasites " which enhance his muscles and intelligence, allowing him to attract Leela's romantic attention.

His powers and weaknesses are entirely symbiotic ; the larger or more populous the city, the greater his abilities ; and, conversely, if the city is damaged, he becomes less effective or develops an injury.

However, in common with many mutualisms, there is more than one aspect to it: in the anemonefish-anemone mutualism, waste ammonia from the fish feed the symbiotic algae that are found in the anemone's tentacles.

Eventually, no later than a billion years ago, one of these protists formed a symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium, producing the ancestor of many plants and algae.

She later formulated a theory to explain how symbiotic relationships between organisms of often different phyla or kingdoms are the driving force of evolution.

Several years later Asimov's friend Randall Garrett attributed the Laws to a symbiotic partnership between the two men – a suggestion that Asimov adopted enthusiastically.

" Dylan would later join The Byrds on stage at Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood on March 26, 1965, further cementing the symbiotic relationship between the artists.

Examples of the diversity of interests in the subject are: in neurobiology where it is understood that " experience can change the mature brain-but experience during the critical periods of early childhood organizes brain systems "; in psychoneuroendocrinology where there is evidence of an " umbilical affect exchange " which influences the immediate and long-term psychology of behavior ; in bioengineering where the importance to development as well as growth of the fetomaternal system is increasingly understood ; and in clinical maternal-fetal medicine where the unique symbiotic relationship between a mother and her fetus is explored, and where issues such as maternal stress and the development of later psychopathology in the child are considered through hormonal mechanisms particularly the HPA axis.

It is later revealed Araña and The Black Tarantula have a personal history with one another, and they bond once more when the Tarantula is attacked by Mayday's symbiotic clone April.

The proto-Xeelee established symbiotic relationships with other survivors as well as autocatalystic reactions in the new baryonic matter, thus emerged what would later be called the Xeelee.

Like other nitrogen-fixing bacteria, they can either be free-living or have symbiotic relationships with plants.

Many types of microorganisms have intimate symbiotic relationships with other larger organisms ; some of which are mutually beneficial ( mutualism ), while others can be damaging to the host organism ( parasitism ).

Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival.

About 80 % of vascular plants worldwide form symbiotic relationships with fungi, for example, in arbuscular mycorrhizas.

* List of symbiotic relationships

A number of kinds of truffles, including the two well known varieties, the black Périgord truffle and the white Piedmont truffle, have symbiotic relationships with oak trees.

While her organelle genesis ideas are widely accepted, symbiotic relationships as a current method of introducing genetic variation is something of a fringe idea.

She opposed such competition-oriented views of evolution, stressing the importance of symbiotic or cooperative relationships between species.

Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants.

Many Ascomycota engage in symbiotic relationships such as in lichens — symbiotic associations with green algae or cyanobacteria — in which the fungal symbiont directly obtains products of photosynthesis.

* List of symbiotic relationships

It was also during the Proterozoic that the first symbiotic relationships between mitochondria ( for nearly all eukaryotes ) and chloroplasts ( for plants and some protists only ) and their hosts evolved.

Book clubs are almost entirely direct-to-retail, and niche publishers pursue a mixed strategy to sell through all available outlets — their output is insignificant to the major booksellers, so lost revenue poses no threat to the traditional symbiotic relationships between the four activities of printing, publishing, distribution and retail.

Plants need nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, as well as micronutrients and symbiotic relationships with fungi and other organisms to flourish, but getting enough nitrogen, and particularly synchronization so that plants get enough nitrogen at the right time ( when plants need it most ), is likely the greatest challenge for organic farmers.

Some animals, such as corals, form symbiotic relationships with autotrophs and obtain organic carbon in this way.

Many of these organisms are pathogens or parasites but some also have symbiotic relationships.

One of the most interesting known symbiotic relationships is that of Paramecium aurelia and its bacterial endosymbionts.

Some are parasites of plants, insects, and small animals, while others form symbiotic relationships with plants.

Later, she and Taylor learn that wisteria is a legume ( i. e., is in the bean family ) and that wisteria and other legumes engage in symbiotic relationships, just as the book's characters do.

Morchella species appear to have either symbiotic mycorrhizal relationships or act as saprotrophs.

Essential to any true understanding of the wildlife gardening concept is an appreciation of the symbiotic relationships between plants and animals.

The mycelia of truffles form symbiotic relationships with the roots of several tree species including beech, poplar, oak, birch, hornbeam, hazel, and pine.