Steroids occur naturally in humans, plants and animals and are essential to human physiology and development.
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Animals eat these plants, using the carbon to grow, and people eat the plants and animals.
The caches include information about dinosaurs, prehistoric plants and animals, and their natural settings.
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It will feature displays showing the nature reserve's plants and animals and their habitats.
The team studied the "molecular clocks" of living species of fungi, plants and animals.
An index of stories about genetically engineered plants and animals, including Aventis' StarLink corn.
Heysham Moss is a peat bog which is home to a wide range of plants and animals.
He found hundreds of previously unknown plants and animals, about 80 of which are named after him.
Isolated populations of plants and animals could establish genetic contact with larger communities, creating healthier and more resilient breeding pools.
But unlike island chains like Hawaii, the Galapagos still maintains 95 percent of its native plants and animals.
"You cannot return to the past and collect data on the status of plants and animals, " Droege said.
If carbon dioxide levels go up 100 ppm over thousands or millions of years, plants and animals can adapt.
There are natural ups and downs of this greenhouse gas, which comes from volcanoes and decomposing plants and animals.
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Across Cambodia, at least 138 plants and animals are suffering significant decline.
If carbon dioxide levels go up 100 parts per million over thousands or millions of years, plants and animals can adapt.
Some places will be rainier, others drier, or windier or sunnier, and the plants and animals will respond in unpredictable ways.
This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today.
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Why should anyone care, Heatley asked, whether forest creatures get replaced by invasive plants and animals that can better tolerate human activity?
The result was a two-thirds majority against a ban on genetic modification of plants and animals and their release into the environment.
But some plants and animals may have to adapt to the collapse.
This year, the network has more than 2, 000 people tracking variations among 600 species of plants and animals in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Of particular concern are silver and bighead carp, which gorge on plankton microscopic plants and animals that virtually all fish eat at some point.
Plants and animals that have survived and thrived in the brutal conditions of Antarctica for millions of years have had to make plenty of adjustments.
There was also be 'Brainiac Live' shows, as well as the 2009 Royal Institution's Christmas lectures on 'the 300 million year war between plants and animals.
Human survival has been based on unrivaled adaptation to the environment, but plants and animals will and are inevitably succumbing to subtle changes in the climate.
"These groups escaped the Spanish rule for 200 years because they fled to the Sierra de San Carlos where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves, " she said.
It's a bitter blow for the museum, and for the plants and animals of the Gran Chaco, which is threatened by illegal logging and forest clearance for agriculture.
In 2003, she and Gary Yohe, an economist at Wesleyan University, analyzed records of the geographical ranges of more than 1, 700 species of plants and animals.
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But the thousands of years of hybridizing plants and animals by humans has, if anything, psychologically and economically predisposed our kind to tampering with nature for our own ends.
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