Sentences with phrase «as flagella»

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For example in the case of the bacterial flagellum, removal of a part may prevent it from acting as a rotary motor.

The one qualified exception is bacteria's whip - like flagellum: it indeed rotates completely around producing torque and propelling the organism as it spins.

These motors spin the flagella, which work as nanoscale propellers to drive the bacterium forward.

Algae colonies, such as the Volvox one shown here, are propelled through water by the coordinated movements of their whip - like flagella.

If the protein is forced in its «narrower» geometrical structure, it is impossible for the flagella to grow outside the bacterium's body, as the channels that would allow the flagella in exit the bacterium's body do not form.

With individual polymer molecules roughly the same size as a single bacterium, the bacteria's flagella physically stretch out the coiled - up polymers like a rubber band.

But changing lifestyles is as easy as cashing in DNA for a new mouth — or if you prefer, multiple mouths — along with extra flagella, defensive spikes, poison - spewing vesicles, and other organismic add - ons.

During the light phase, microbes went about ongoing «housekeeping» processes, such as detoxifying, sensing the chemicals around them, and building the flagella, or tails, that help the microbes move.

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.

This rules out reciprocal motion — such as the way a fish uses their fins — so the microswimmers must rely on nonreciprocal motion similar to that of bacterial flagella, in which rotational motion is converted to translational motion.

The name comes from the posterior location of the flagellum in motile cells, such as most animal sperm, whereas other eukaryotes tend to have anterior flagella.

In addition, the older of the two centrioles can also function as a basal body seeding the growth of cilia or flagella.

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movAs a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movas pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

This organism has two nuclei and eight flagella, and can cause a persistent diarrheal disease called giardiasis (colloquially known as «beaver fever»).