Sentences with phrase «flagellum on»

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Microtubules even come into play on the outside of cells, forming into cilia and flagella that allow for cell movement.

«We worked on a protein that is key in the early stage of the flagella's development.

They differ most obviously from their spider and scorpion relatives in three ways: their massive two - segmented jaws, which can be up to one - third of their body length and are armed with teeth and spine - like and horn - like processes of various sizes; the flagellum, found on the jaws of adult males in most species and thought to play a major role in reproduction; and the malleoli, racquet - shaped sensory organs on the underside of the first segment of the last pair of legs.

A bacterium moves by means of flagella, which are hairlike appendages on its surface that rotate either clockwise or anticlockwise.

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.

Chapman: Yeah, and that's a good piece of work and what it did for me — to go on to continue that thought about the way in which it was an education — is what I saw was that it was possible for a complicated scientific subject to be discussed in front of a lay audience, not be patronizing to the lay audience, get across a lot of information and excite people because the local people were meeting outside the court and they were saying, «Well did you hear the things about the bacterial flagellum?»

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 UGA researchers discovered that long filaments — that look like beads on a string — form by budding from the flagellum of African trypanosomes and then release pieces of the parasite into the host.

Then, some heat and acid resistant archaebacterium (e.g., Thermoplasma) may have merged with free - swimming spirochete - type bacteria, which became flagella or cilia, on a now, free - swimming protist that is easily poisoned by oxygen.