(1) Experiments with gas mixtures intended to simulate the primaeval atmosphere of the Earth yielded many biologically important chemicals.
(2) Protein biosynthesis must therefore have arisen out of a primaeval polynucleotide replicase system.
Primeval
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(2) Human beings associate in societies because of a primeval need and fundamental instincts.
(3) Last year ITV1 drama Primeval was saved from cancellation with a financing deal in which BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm that distributes the show overseas, took over from ITV as the biggest investor.
(4) But it's still his early pieces that pack the greatest punch, and that, thanks to the film-makers who have used them, give voice and vision to the dark, primeval realms of our imagination.
(5) The rough track is an unmarked turning across a primeval landscape of rock and sand under a vast cobalt sky.
(6) Most people don’t know Whitechapel and Primeval were both developed by the BBC.
(7) The existence of hot or cold "nutrient broth" or "primeval soup" is challenged on the basis of the recent geochemistry of soluble organic carbon in the oceans.
(8) Hodges, who was also behind Primeval and Charles II, will return to executive produce the second series of six episodes next year.
(9) At present, craniofacial biodynamics is the sole concept capable of shedding light on matters such as the evolution of the skull, its diversification and transformation down from the primeval primates.
(10) The simplest interpretation of our data is that all extant photosynthetic cells are descended from a single common ancestor that possessed a primeval photosynthetic mechanism.
(11) ITV1's drama Primeval wilted badly against BBC1's Doctor Who special, picking up 2.7 million viewers and a 14% share in the hour from 6.15pm.
(12) Proof of evolution beyond Australia's "primeval prejudices" stemming back to our colonial origins was the rise of Catholics in the Liberal party, with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, "part of the proof".
(13) Sky1 is has commissioned a multimillion-pound remake of Sinbad the Sailor, to be produced by Primeval makers Impossible Pictures, which it promises will have "the ambition of Lost and the pace of 24".
(14) Many of those who framed them are in the vanguard of the campaign to take Britain out of Europe, playing on primeval island fears of being ruled by Brussels’s faceless bureaucrats and some of its undemocratic institutions.
(15) It is as though these disorders had retained a phylogenetically lost unity and primeval capability of interchanging psychic and somatic structures and, so to speak, preserved them in the manner of a museum.
(16) ITV is cutting a further 600 jobs on top of 1,000 announced last year, as well as slashing £65m from its £1.1bn programme budget, with high-profile shows such as Primeval axed.
(17) Iron, molybdenum, and zinc, the most abundant transition elements in seawater, presumably complexed with compounds accumulated in the primeval sea in the course of chemical evolution forming compounds with subsequently evolved to form proenzymes or early enzymes with low activity and broad specificity.
(18) Certain class 5 protein variants were expressed by both bacterial clones, possibly reflecting either inheritance of primeval genes or horizontal transmission.
(19) BBC America, UKTV channel Watch and Germany's Pro7 also invested to fund two more series of Primeval.
(20) Another new Sky1 drama unveiled today is a 13-part remake of Sinbad the Sailor , to be produced by Impossible Pictures, the company behind Primeval.