Colony
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You can observe quorum sensing in action in this movie, where a growing
colony
of bacteria only begins to glow once it reaches a high or critical density.
Our genetic program continues producing these rhythmic patterns of fluorescent proteins as the
colony
grows outwards.
He suggested, "OK, if the stinging individuals are going to be the males ..." Then he got confused, because that would have meant the males were also taking care of the young in a colony, and he seemed to think that would be completely impossible.
And when I tell them that the ferocious army-ant soldiers with their giant jaws, used to defend the colony, are all always female, they seem to not quite believe me.
My father was born in Gold Coast, a British colony, raised in Ghana, and has lived for over 30 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In an ant colony, there are dramatic divisions of labor.
There are soldiers that defend the colony, there are workers that collect food, clean the nest and care for the young, and there's a queen and a small group of male reproductives.
But when in 2006 such losses were found to affect more than half of all hives in the US, the phenomenon got a new name:
colony
collapse disorder.
In reality, scientists, the actual detectives on this case, face disagreement over what causes
colony
collapse disorder.
Welcome to the ant
colony.
After mating, the males die off, while females try to establish a new
colony.
They will then defend the
colony
and forage for food, while unfertilized eggs grow into males whose only job is to wait until they are ready to leave the nest and reproduce, beginning the cycle again.
But one of the most impressive collective capabilities of an ant
colony
is to thoroughly and efficiently explore large areas without any predetermined plan.
Billed as a utopian paradise, the
colony
was more like a prison camp, and when a congressional delegation arrived to investigate its conditions, Jones executed his final plan.
The first official to be impeached was Tennesse Senator William Blount in 1797 for conspiring with Britain to cease the Spanish
colony
of Louisiana.
Yes, we could do a lot of good with the money it will take to establish a thriving
colony
on Mars.
It's not a bad place to start a
colony.
What are they going to think when we actually form a
colony
on Mars?
Now, the Pribilof Islands are also the home of a large
colony
of fur seals.
In the 1950s, there were about two million individuals in that
colony.
I was born in a refugee
colony
in the capital city of India, New Delhi.
One of our first robotic quests along this line was to create our very own
colony
of a thousand robots.
All he wanted was his people to be free from the colony, like Mahatma Gandhi in the 1940s.
When we talk about bottom-up, decentralized phenomena, the ant
colony
is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.
So, the ant
colony
is a great model: you have all these little parts that collectively add up to a great thing.
And so this opens up the whole idea of looking at
colony
health.
But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that
colony
in two.
When I was born in Singapore, which was then a poor British colony, in 1948, I experienced, like three-quarters of humanity then, extreme poverty.
And a million tons is enough to make, say, a self-contained space station, on which there's a
colony
of scientists that are devoted to creating an open-ended stream of knowledge, and so on.
Over the next decade, we know he worked as a mason and a waiter at a hotel in the French
colony
of Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then known.
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