Sentences with phrase «internal skeleton»

"Internal skeleton" refers to a framework of bones or hard structures inside the body of an organism. It provides support, protection, and shape to the body, allowing for movement and performing various functions. Full definition
Fig. 7 The small internal skeleton of the sea hare, about 1 1/2» across.
Paclitaxel targets a part of the cell's internal skeleton called microtubules and stabilizes the structure so that the cell can not rapidly grow and divide.
Axons are stretchy due in part to their flexible internal skeleton.
Here's how testing the Trtl went: An editor would take one look at the offbeat fleece neckwrap (it's got a springy internal skeleton to support your head), beg to try something — anything!
Some squids have a fairly hard internal skeleton, the cuttlebone familiar to parakeet owners, while others have a much smaller structure called a pen.
Goniolithion species: A red algae that has a calcareous internal skeleton and looks like a small, fragile branching coral.
SOFT BODIED organisms, but virtually no organisms with an exoskeleton like arthropods and nothing with an internal skeleton.
The skull of a 250 million year old fossil fish and a virtual model of its internal skeleton, along with a life reconstruction.
Unlike most other cephalopods, the majority of octopuses - those in the suborder most commonly known, Incirrata - have almost entirely soft bodies with no internal skeleton.
Dismantling structural filaments within the cytoskeletons — the internal skeletons — of the endothelial cells creates the large holes, which can be several microns in diameter.
Numerous studies in recent years have documented how lower pH (higher acidity) can make it harder for shellfish and tiny organisms to form shells or internal skeletons and to reproduce.
Cells possess an internal skeleton, which enables them to alter their form and actively migrate.
In the organoids, the scientists found such mechanical instability in two places: the cytoskeleton — the internal skeleton — of the cells in the center of the organoid contracted, and the nuclei of the cells near the surface expanded.
An initial drug test suggested that the virus manipulates the cell's internal skeleton, so the team stained the skeleton and videotaped the viral assault on a live kidney cell of a green African monkey.
Some proteins give an organism's body its structure, whether in the cell's internal skeleton or in a strand of hair.
The glasslike needles are sponge spicules, which form the internal skeletons of sponges.
This unique combination of the genes demonstrates that there is a connection between exocytosis and the remodeling of the cell's internal skeleton, but what that connection is remains unclear.
Members have the genetic material needed to build an internal skeleton, even though these primitive cells don't have a skeleton.
Sponges do have an internal skeleton which gives them shape and strength.
It has calcium carbonate as its internal skeleton in the form of microscopic needles and upon death contributes these to help form lime mud.
A lot of the algae contains calcium carbonate as an internal skeleton to help it form an erect plant to lift it off the sea floor.
Unlike other species of turtle that have external carapaces, the leatherback has a tough leathery skin and internal skeleton.
The Logitech G533 has the same design unit and the internal skeleton structure as the G633.
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