metabolism
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That finding suggests that the earliest metabolism depended much more heavily on the surrounding environment than modern cellular metabolism does.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Within each lineage, newly evolved enzymes gradually replaced the inorganic catalysts supplied by the environment where metabolism had first developed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
It helps the body fight infection, maintain blood pressure, and regulate blood sugar and metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Such markers can help researchers assess whether a dietary change is affecting processes linked to blood sugar control, metabolism, or heart health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The phenols, as we have seen, have a strong effect on metabolism, causing a potentially fatal rise in temperature; this is brought about by the “racing engine” effect of uncoupling.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The results point to one major difference: species whose metabolisms were less able to cope with warmer, oxygen poor water suffered the highest extinction rates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Smaller animals also typically require more nutrient-dense food than larger ones, because they have faster metabolisms and consume more energy per unit of body mass.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
These bacteria appear to be more resourceful than bacteria with respiratory metabolisms that live outside of a host organism, which mostly use inorganic compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
But so extremely intricate is the chemistry of the substances involved that in no single case has the exact nature of the metabolisms wrought by these organs been fully made out.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
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