Sentences with phrase «cell parts»

In one project this past year, for instance, the teens made videos about the functions of different cell parts.

On a follow - up quiz on cell parts, the students did about the same as those who had learned the traditional way the year before.

Examining those fossilized bristles through a powerful microscope, he did more than confirm his hypothesis: He also noticed that the bristles were brimming with melanosomes, color - bearing cell parts found in modern avian feathers.

In the Nature Communications study, UTSW researchers also reported how miR - 17 causes cyst proliferation: the molecule essentially reprograms the metabolism of kidney cells so that cellular structures called mitochondria use less nutrients, freeing up resources to instead make cell parts that become cysts.

While the first role of autophagy is to enfold aging cell parts into vesicles where they can be broken down and recycled, evolution has also put this mechanism to work in controlling fat, or lipid, levels and as a backup system for removing harmful bacteria.

His research shows that the greatest biological processes — autophagy, bad cells and cell parts regenerated, production of stem cells, etc. — are achieved on a longer fast than intermittent fasting achieves.

If you eat fatty acids that can be used to build cell parts (phospholipids build cell membranes) or that can act as messengers (CLA activates fat cell apoptosis) these fats are unlikely to end up on your hips.

As discussed before, your body is breaking down old cell parts, tissues, fat stores, and healthy cells are consuming dead cells, so that they have fuel, and so that they don't swamp the filtering organs like the kidneys.

In this part of the lab work, the students looked at an Elodea plant cell and an onion cell and investigated it in the lab to identify the different cell parts.

As biotechnology evolves, its easier to imagine a future where a steak dinner would be produced in the laboratory and cell parts are replicated via 3 - D printer.

Symbiotic bacteria that dwell within insect cells are intricately intertwined with their hosts, prompting scientists to question when these bacteria stop being bona fide organisms and become part of the cell

Tremblaya presents something of a paradox that some biologists think could help illuminate the evolution of cell parts.

The Sheffield team led by Dr Kurt De Vos and Dr Andy Grierson investigated the role of the C9orf72 protein in nerve cells and found it regulates the initiation of a vital process called «autophagy», which helps the cell to dispose of damaged proteins and cell parts, and recycles cell nutrients.

tag (in cell biology) The attachment of a chemical that stains a cell (or cell part) or that glows when a certain wavelength of light hits it.

Your body's electron transport system, as part of iron / sulfur proteins in mitochondria, the energy factories of your cells

The cell part of the blood is examined in the CBC.

Complete Blood Count (CBC): Examines the cell part of the blood and determines the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, the hemoglobin level and the hematocrit in your pet.

A new committee of cell parts had evolved, called the eukaryote, with the genes kept in a bag in the middle of the cell, called the nucleus.