Sentences with phrase «called flagella»

It is a flagellated protozoan, a single - celled organism that is able to propel itself by the use of whip - like appendages called flagella.

Attached to the outside of the cell are long strands called flagella, which propel the cell.

Bacteria propel by pushing against the tiny fluid corkscrew - like appendages called flagella.

Many bacteria swim with miniature propellers called flagella.

The bio-bots are modeled after single - celled creatures with long tails called flagella — for example, sperm.

Dr. Wolgemuth and his team, in collaboration with Dr. Justin Radolf at the University of Connecticut Health Center, found that the swimming speeds of the bacteria decrease with increases in the viscosity of their external environment, even though their motors — called flagella — are entirely intracellular.

When the back of Jesus is bared and stretched tight, a Roman legionnaire steps forward with the flagrum (sometimes it is called a flagellum or cat - of - nine - tails) in his hand.

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.

One of the sponge's cell types is the distinctively shaped choanocyte, a cell equipped with a tiny long filament, called a flagellum, surrounded by a collar studded with even tinier hairs called microvilli.

Researchers knew that Bsal makes spores with a tiny tail called a flagellum, which propels them toward amphibians.

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The key function of the flagella is movement — what scientists call «motility».

In a unique — and for some amphibians deadly — adaptation, they release so - called zoospores that can swim a few centimeters by whipping a flagellum.

Animal sperm are predominantly small and motile, with compact nuclei and often a beating flagellum, which are produced through a series of male - specific developmental steps called spermatogenesis.

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