Sentences with phrase «longer flagella»

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When the long strands of the flagellum strike, they wrap around the victim's body and dig into the front and sides of the body.

For he spoke long before William Dembski began stringing out his texts with all those ones and zeros, and long before Michael Behe began instructing the lay public in the intricacies of bacterial flagella.

Many bacteria swim using flagella — long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of nanometres wide.

When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body.

The bio-bots are modeled after single - celled creatures with long tails called flagella — for example, sperm.

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.

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.

One of the sponge's cell types is the distinctively shaped choanocyte, a cell equipped with a tiny long filament, called a flagellum, surrounded by a collar studded with even tinier hairs called microvilli.

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.

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.

Attached to the outside of the cell are long strands called flagella, which propel the cell.

In addition, the fruit fly's sperm flagellum displays quite a long axoneme (∼ 1.8 mm), which may facilitate both histological and biochemical analyses.

Giardia living in your cat's intestine are single - celled creatures (protozoa) that move about by means of long motile filaments (four pairs of flagella).

Giardia living in your dog's intestine are single - celled creatures (protozoa) that move about by means of long motile filaments (four pairs of flagella).