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And just like that, another of their decisions was to keep me and my siblings connected to our roots.
Within 20 years, sidewalks have been torn apart by weeds and tree roots.
So we might imagine that laughter might actually have two different roots.
So if you can briefly reflect on what I was discussing about beauty and about belonging and about our ancestors and our roots, and I need you all to stand for me, please.
That paper up there had its roots in this.
King Arthur as we know him is a creation of the later Middle Ages, but his legend actually has its roots in Celtic poetry from an earlier time: the Saxon invasions of Britain.
Because religion doesn't just create the roots of morality, it creates the seeds of normality.
It's just some addition, multiplication, a little bit of square roots.
Now look at those lovely roots coming down.
That glucose is then transformed into more complex organic molecules to form leaves, stems, roots, fruit, and so on.
Living plants shed dead body parts: fallen leaves, broken branches, and even underground roots.
They send down very deep roots, mine subterranean water supplies and just keep flushing it through them at all times, keeping themselves hydrated.
It's also called the upside-down tree, simply because the proportion of roots to shoots is so great that it looks like the tree has been planted upside down.
And of course the roots are required for hydration of that plant.
The vegetative tissues, the roots and leaves of annuals, do not have much by way of inherent resistance, avoidance or tolerance characteristics.
Or slightly differently phrased, are resurrection plants using genes evolved in seed desiccation tolerance in their roots and leaves?
Have they retasked these seed genes in roots and leaves of resurrection plants?
All modern crops, therefore, have these genes in their roots and leaves, they just never switch them on.
And indeed, our liberal democracies today do not have their roots in ancient Athens.
They have their roots in the Magna Carta, in the 1688 Glorious Revolution, indeed in the American constitution.
By undoing these changes, we can trace the language from the present day back to its ancient roots.
It may be hard to see the roots of modern English underneath all the words borrowed from French, Latin, Old Norse and other languages.
Below the skin's surface, the roots that give rise to our hair actually remain alive.
In starches, which plants mostly store for energy in roots and seeds, glucose molecules are joined together by alpha linkages, most of which can be easily cleaved by enzymes in your digestive tract.
This smooth, muscular ring of the LES is moderated by an intricate tree of nerve roots that connect to the brain, the heart, and the lungs.
So this sets up this beautiful natural experiment where we can look at the genes behind our vision, and at the very roots of how we can see.
In the first three months, roots reach a depth of one meter.
These roots form a mesh, tightly holding the soil.
Microbes and fungi live throughout this network of roots.
Once these roots are established, forest starts growing on the surface.
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