How to Use foram in a Sentence

foram

noun
  • Likewise, an apparently global population of a foram species can hide cryptic species.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Several foram species seemed to flip their shell direction around the same time at different latitudes in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In addition to data on coiling direction from multiple species going back millions of years, the study incorporates insights from modern foram genetics and biology.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Recently, micropaleontologists integrated and synthesized data on the shell-coiling direction, or chirality, of several species from case studies of forams dating back as far as 56 million years.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Then, in 2013, the evolutionary paleobiologist Yurika Ujiié, now a professor at Kochi University in Japan, found that shell chirality in different foram species, collected from multiple oceans, did not correspond to temperature.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

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