Sentences with phrase «like flagella»

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

Coupled with the long, sensing whip - like flagella extending from the tip of the claws, this makes the frontal appendages of the animal some of the most versatile and complex in all known arthropods.

It was tied to a single mutation that allowed the bacteria to develop several whip - like flagella that helped them to move around very rapidly.

When viscosity increases, E. coli are less able to separate their braid of whip - like flagella.

Algae colonies, such as the Volvox one shown here, are propelled through water by the coordinated movements of their whip - like flagella.

The one qualified exception is bacteria's whip - like flagellum: it indeed rotates completely around producing torque and propelling the organism as it spins.

It is far from easy to control a single cell that propels itself through fluid with its whip - like flagellum.

Their findings, recently published in Scientific Reports, revealed that amphibian Brucella strains show distinctive characteristics not seen in other forms — the most surprising development being a whip - like flagellum that helps the bacteria move through their environment.

This rod - shaped bacterium moves via its hair - like flagellae (yellow).

Not exact matches

The book «Darwin's Black Box» argues that organisms like cilium, bacterial flagellum, animal cells, and antibodies are irreducibly complex.

The argument against neo-Darwinism begins from the undoubted observation that many features of living beings, like the bacterial flagellum or the human eye, are the result of not one genetic mutation but of a large number of such mutations.

The flagella give the bacteria the ability to swim in their environment by rotating like propellers.

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.

Dinoflagellates like Peridinium furca are best known for two transparent whiplike flagella — one that encircles the body, the other arising from between the two points.

With individual polymer molecules roughly the same size as a single bacterium, the bacteria's flagella physically stretch out the coiled - up polymers like a rubber band.

In a study published in Science, University of Utah researchers report the eludication of a mechanism that regulates the length of the flagellum's 25 nanometer driveshaft - like rod and answers a long - standing question about how cells are held together.

Nearly half of the samples contained cells with flagella, tail - like projections that sperm use to swim.

Bacteria propel by pushing against the tiny fluid corkscrew - like appendages called flagella.

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.

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.

FLS3 detects a part of the flagellum, a tail - like appendage that helps bacteria swim through their environment and consists mostly of flagellin proteins.

They successfully destroyed the microorganisms» flagella, a whip - like coil which microorganisms use to move through liquid, and the mobility of the strains was slashed accordingly.

It is a flagellated protozoan, a single - celled organism that is able to propel itself by the use of whip - like appendages called flagella.

It would waste (assuming the goal is not satire) too much space to put research articles in publications proving the moon is made of cheese (it's got craters, Swiss cheese has holes, by Glen Beck style logic: ergo...) or that the moon landings were faked or that the Earth is flat, or that purified water can do magic, or that you can get jewelry by staring at it through a shop window, or that a bacterial flagellum could not have evolved, — you know, common sense stuff like that...