Sentences with phrase «as eyespots»
«This discovery suggests that plastoglobuli in plants may act as eyespots,» Baluška says.
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Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.
The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.
It's also possible that the eyespots act as decoys that cause hunters to attack the outer wing instead of the more vulnerable body.
Some of these butterfly pictures featured natural - looking eyespots, others had none, and a third group showed digitally manipulated spots that had the same color contrast as real spots but looked less like eyes.
Known as Chlamy to researchers, this alga's combination of traits — it has a cell wall and chloroplasts, but also an eyespot and pair of flagella, and switches between sunlight and carbon for food — has made it a popular study subject for decades.