Sentences with phrase «host cell of another organism»

Viruses are also not considered to be plants, since they do not have a cell of their own, but inhabit a host cell of another organism; moreover, in many classifications they are not considered a living organism at all.

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Hartman suggested in 1984 that the nucleus arose when a hypothetical cell that stored its genetic information as RNA instead of DNA and possessed a simple cytoskeleton became the host for an archaeal organism.

They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant).

«When we deal with environmental or host - associated organisms that live within complex communities — typically thousands of species or more co-occur at the same time — it is very hard to determine what an individual species or cell is up to.

Thanks to the protected environment of the host cell, these organisms tend to evolve rapidly, with the smallest mutating the fastest.

Amy Buck and her colleagues studied microRNAs, snippets of genetic material in a host organism — you, for instance — that influence the proteins the organism's cells produce.

Given its genetic origin as a commensal soil organism, it is equipped with an extensive and varied set of adapted mechanisms to cope with and modulate host - cell environments.

We have also identified a transcriptional signature of aneuploidy that is associated with cellular stress and slow proliferation, and is found in aneuploid primary and cancer cells across a host of organisms.

«A submicroscopic infective particle which is able to multiply within the cells of a host organism.»

It is hard to believe that such a simply constructed organism could be so deadly; however, this virus has proved especially effective at infecting by rapidly dividing host cells such as intestinal cells, bone marrow cells, cells of the lymph system, and fetal cells.

Responsible for gastroenteritis, pneumonia, skin infections, urinary tract problems, and a host of other diseases, these tiny, one - celled organisms can multiply unchecked in your pet's body without the intervention of antibiotics.

It is hard to believe that such a simply constructed organism could be so deadly; however, this virus has proved especially effective at infecting rapidly dividing host cells such as intestinal cells, bone marrow cells, cells of the lymph system, and fetal cells.

Soon the host cell becomes a virus factory, replicating thousands of new viral organisms to go forward and infect new cells.

Tiny, round Cryptosporidium organisms line the outside of host cells.

STDs caused by viruses include herpes and genital warts, and the viruses that cause them aren't even technically living organisms — they are pieces of genetic information that are able to infect a host cell.