Tag: phosphate
How Roots Become Jackhammers
How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis
The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems.
The Phosphorus Cycle: Cause or Effect?
Phosphorus, oxygen, and microbes cooperate in a delicate balance that sustains our productive biosphere. How did they come to interact?
Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu — What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?
These Ryugu samples appear to be our first chance to examine which organic compounds may be produced in a prebiotic setting in our solar system.
Jim Tour Unmasks Steve Benner’s Double Standard and Inaccurate Commentary on the Origin of Life
If Benner assessed his experiments by the same standard he applied to others, he would have acknowledged that his attempts have yielded nothing of value.