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In these hostile conditions, plants that are able to lure, trap, and digest prey have an advantage over those that rely on soil for their nutrients.
If a portion of a Redwood is rotting, the Redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart.
If we had Redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
In fact, they naturally improve water quality, filtering it as they feed off of sunlight and nutrients in the seawater.
They can, however, collect nutrients from the soil much more efficiently than tree roots— and pass these nutrients into the tree roots.
It makes sense for fungus to exchange soil nutrients and sugar with a tree— both parties benefit.
Through the mycorrhizae, trees can tell when nutrients or signaling molecules are coming from a member of their own species or not.
See, decomposition releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as well as other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide, but it also releases all the nutrients we all need to survive.
It can hold on to a lot of water and nutrients.
Then, what is just as important: get the right fungi in there that will grow into those leaves, bring back the nutrients to the roots of the trees that have just dropped that leaf within 24 hours.
But rather, it is their leaves that are adapted to intercept the dissolved nutrients that come to them in the form of mist and fog.
They have a tremendous capacity for holding on to nutrients and water.
There's no nutrients there that were used up long ago.
And with just a little bit of clean, renewable energy, you can pump that water up and use the nutrients in it to irrigate your seaweed crop.
They also need nutrients from the soil.
And that carbon dioxide, besides making plants grow, has other consequences as well, that plants, when they have higher carbon dioxide, increase the synthesis of carbohydrates, sugars and starches, and they decrease the concentrations of protein and critical nutrients.
And the way bacteria make a living is that they consume nutrients from the environment, they grow to twice their size, they cut themselves down in the middle, and one cell becomes two, and so on and so on.
Rich in blood vessels and nutrients, this protein factory produces an endless stream of keratin, which is tightly packed into cells called keratinocytes.
Breast milk is kind of miraculous: in addition to containing nutrients for the baby, it seems to contain food for the good microbes as well.
It's not about nutrients and calories.
And with the help of modern science, cotton might soon be softer, stronger, and more resilient than ever as researchers investigate how to optimize its growth based on nutrients, weather conditions, and genetics.
They steal nutrients and zap energy.
They lack nutrients, and diarrhea dehydrates them.
It doesn't have nutrients, it doesn't have protein, and scientists are engineering all of that into it right now.
And I'm going to just talk very briefly about two kinds of biological pollution: one is introduced species and the other is what comes from nutrients.
Now another form of pollution that's biological pollution is what happens from excess nutrients.
And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.
The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great anchoveta fisheries, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those fisheries collapse.
And under the microscope, you can see hundreds of these brown-stained blood vessels, capillaries that are feeding cancer cells, bringing oxygen and nutrients.
Then they can't get any larger because they don't have a blood supply, so they don't have enough oxygen or nutrients.
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