Sentences with phrase «contained organelles»

Of course, replacing faulty mitochondria, which are self - contained organelles within the cell, is relatively simple and — we think — safe.

These cancers remodel proteins using the cellular self - cannibalization process known as autophagy to capture and degrade intracellular proteins and protein - containing organelles.

In 2010, Yale Univ. scientists for the first time, used fossilized melanosomes, melanin - containing organelles, to infer the colors of a 150 - million — year - old dinosaur.

For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction.

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But the samples he saw never contained intact organelles — specialized cell structures with dedicated jobs.

Second, eukaryotes contain various organelles, internal compartments partitioned off from the rest of the cell by membranes.

These specialized cells have organelles called nematocysts that contain venom.

Instead of mitochondria (the cellular engines that convert oxygen to energy, present in all other known animal cells), these creatures contain structures resembling hydrogenosomes, the organelles that anaerobic microbes use to generate energy.

Each cnidocyte contains a cnidocyst, an organelle which resembles a miniature coiled harpoon.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at fossilized organelles (called melanosomes) that contain melanin, a type of pigment that suggests a color scheme for the birdlike dinosaur: gray feathers on its body, a reddish mohawk down the center of its head, and white feathers with black tips that line the creature's wings and legs.

«We are extraordinarily lucky that each of the main pigment forms of melanin is contained in a different shaped organelle,» Benton said at a briefing yesterday.

These organelles contain melanin, a group of pigment compounds in skin, fur, and feathers.

The researchers observed round organelles in the fossil that could be melanosomes, pigment - containing structures in the skin (or epidermis) that give turtle shells their dark color.

The eponymous cell type of the 500 - million - year - old Cnidaria is the cnidocyte, which contains microscopically small organelles — the stinging capsules also known as cnidocysts or nematocysts.

The diarrhea - causing microbe Giardia intestinalis for a time seemed mitochondria - free, but on closer investigation, it and other suspects proved to be false alarms, containing shrunken versions of the organelles.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research senior fellows Brian Leander and Patrick Keeling supervised lead author Greg Gavelis at the University of British Columbia and, in collaboration with senior fellow Curtis Suttle, showed that this eye - like structure contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes that can detect objects — known as camera eyes — that are found in humans and other larger animals.

We now know that each quantum, consisting of a collection of around 5000 transmitter molecules, is contained in a little round organelle in the presynaptic terminal that Sanford Palay and George Palade had earlier discovered and called the «synaptic vesicl.e» Neurotransmitter is released from these synaptic vesicles to the outside of the neuron in response to the influx of Ca2 + into the presynaptic terminal.

(17) Arabidopsis contains three additional members of the zinc finger family, all predicted to be targeted to organelles.

Homology search revealed that a protein that we have named ORRM1 (Organelle RRM - domain containing protein 1) contained domains characteristic of the RIP family, but also exhibited an RNA Recognition Motif (RRM), unlike any of the RIP proteins.

Distribution and dynamics of Lamp1 - containing endocytic organelles in fibroblasts deficient in BLOC - 3.

The few protozoa that lack mitochondria have been found to contain mitochondrion - derived organelles, such as hydrogenosomes and mitosomes; and thus probably secondarily lost their mitochondria.

Most eukaryotic cells also contain other membrane - bound organelles such as mitochondria, chloroplasts and the Golgi apparatus.

Electron microscopic studies revealed that the presynaptic terminal of the neuron transmitting the information is filled with synaptic vesicles, small organelles containing thousands of molecules of a chemical neurotransmitter.

Eukaryotic cells also contain many internal membrane - bound structures called organelles.

These white blood cells digest unwanted cellular material in the body and the organelles they contain help them achieve that goal.

In dystrophic neurites, autophagosomes, multivesicular bodies, multilamellar bodies, and cathepsin - containing autophagolysosomes were the predominant organelles and accumulated in large numbers.

But it has now been demonstrated that these Archezoa actually contain derived mitochondria, organelles that were once mitochondria in their evolutionary past (anaerobic mitochondria, mitochondria - like organelles, hydrogenosomes and mitosomes)[5].

Merozoites are ovoid cells containing apically located secretory organelles that release proteins which are required for the invasion of new erythrocytes [6, 7].

Examination under a microscope confirmed that the muscle fibers of the modified mice are denser, the muscles are more massive, and the cells in the tissue contain higher numbers of mitochondria — cellular organelles that deliver energy to the muscles.

This is done by sending it to the lysosome which is a specialized organelle containing enzymes to degrade proteins.

There is over 26 pages of materials in which you will create 2 foldables that contains a TV, remote, and 10 stations of high quality microscope pictures of each cell's organelles.

Energy within the Infrared Region sufficient to produce the «greenhouse warming» platformed would infact stop the cellular processes as the WATER encapsulated began too «heated» and the contained chemistry ceased (directly or due to a cells «internal organelles» failing) with the cells then dying.