Search results for "Desiccation" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • process that leads to extreme drying is called desiccation. ... * Desiccation * Food preservation * Freeze drying * Hydration ...
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  • the end of the Paleozoic era, reproduce using desiccation-resistant capsules called seeds. These groups are accordingly called spermatophytes or seed ...
    11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
  • periods of adverse conditions after desiccation. This facility is termed anhydrobiosis, and organisms with these capabilities are termed anhydrobionts ...
    11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
  • the rock surface, protecting them from desiccation during low tide, despite ... with water, have a greater risk of desiccation due to the effects of ...
    20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
  • tolerate irregular and extended periods of severe desiccation. Like some mosses, liverworts, ferns, and a few "resurrection plants," upon desiccation ...
    19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
  • wax layer, which protects the leaves from desiccation. The cones are barrel-shaped, 6–12 centimeters long, and, as in Abies, disintegrate at ...
    10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
  • lungfish are capable of surviving seasonal desiccation of habitats by burrowing into mud and estivating throughout the dry season. Changes in physiology ...
    13 KB (1,608 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
  • halves that protect it from predators and desiccation. Protruding from a valve is an enlarged structure called the umbo, which indicates the dorsal ...
    14 KB (2,096 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
  • enter this state via anhydrobiosis (extreme desiccation), cryobiosis (decreased temperature), osmobiosis (in response to increased solute concentration ...
    13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
  • plant roots are unable to absorb water, so desiccation can be a severe problem in late winter for evergreens. Although the taiga is dominated ...
    16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
  • seed's cell viability, can undergo desiccation, yet survive and revive ... the viability of the soybean seed from desiccation they are not digestible ...
    46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
  • tolerate direct sunlight and periods of total desiccation. == Classification == === Relationship to other plants === Traditionally, the liverworts ...
    21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
  • as a barrier in terrestrial organisms against desiccation, and even functional roles in feeding, storage, sensing, and movement (Bengtson 2004). For ...
    22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
  • complete fertilization. Some mosses can survive desiccation, returning to life within a few hours of rehydration. In northern latitudes, the north ...
    21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
  • There is also an absolute alcohol production process by desiccation ... purification past 95.6 percent purity is desiccation using adsorbents such ...
    49 KB (7,279 words) - 04:30, 22 March 2024
  • nomadic lifestyle. With the gradual desiccation of the Sahara, they headed south. Following them came a migration of not only central Saharans ...
    28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
  • going up the shore. Species ability to cope with desiccation determines their upper limits, while competition with other species sets their lower limits. ...
    37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
  • evolved in small ancestors to help resist desiccation. The trachea were originally connected to the surroundings through a pair of spiracles (openings ...
    40 KB (6,291 words) - 21:38, 7 February 2023
  • throughout the region). Following the desiccation of the Sahara, most black Africans migrated south into East Africa and West Africa. The Aterian ...
    44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
  • in the form of deforestation, soil desiccation, and the lowering of soil fertility and the water table. H.A. R. Musnad and M.A. el-Rasheed, [https://archive ...
    46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023

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