(Most human cells have
thicker cell walls and can resist the low amounts of acid honey produces.)
By 72 hours, the cells with depleted glucose levels began to make
thicker cell walls, possibly to protect themselves until they could find more favorable environmental conditions.
Nor are tubes from fungi or plants for they lack
the thick cell walls that these groups have.
Leaves» nutrients are locked up behind
thick cell walls, and breaking down those barriers takes a lot of time and energy.
From the perspective of a bioengineer interested in converting glucose input into lipid output, the development of
a thicker cell wall under starvation conditions represents wasted carbon that would otherwise be used for lipid production.
The space samples also developed
a thicker cell wall and membrane, which the team believes helped the bacteria protect itself from the antibiotic.
Heat breaks down the plants»
thick cell walls and aids the body's uptake of nutrients bound to those cell walls.
Not exact matches
Matt and Sweat used power tools to saw through a steel
cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a 2 - foot -
thick brick
wall, squirmed through pipes and emerged from a manhole outside the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
The prisoners used power tools to saw through a steel
cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a 2 - foot -
thick brick
wall, squirmed through pipes and popped out of a manhole outside the prison.
According to the authors this may be due to the extremely
thick and impervious waxy
cell wall of the leprosy bacillus that protects their DNA from degradation.
It is known that the egg gets its food from little arm - like feeding tubes (called filopodia) that jut out from tiny
cells surrounding the egg and must poke through a
thick wall coating the egg in order to feed it.
Actin allows the
cell wall to maintain a thickness gradient —
thicker at the base and thinner at the tip — as it grows.
Unlike mammalian
cells, plant
cells are rigid, constrained by a
thick wall of fibers that have the tensile strength of steel.
Sperm racing to fertilize an egg face numerous hurdles, including burrowing through the zona pellucida, a
thick wall surrounding the
cell membrane.
Incorporating a synthetic phage genome into Gram - positive bacteria has so far been very problematic, as their
cell walls are so
thick.
When viewed in detail (Fig. 10.1) it is clear that they are made up of sequences of large, thin -
walled cells (earlywood) and more densely packed,
thick -
walled cells (latewood).
However, because M. barkeri has a complex
cell wall, produces a
thick outer layer of polysaccharide, and grows in large aggregates of
cells rather than as individual
cells, standard RNA extraction protocols give incomplete lysis of
cells and result in low yields of poor - quality RNA.
One of the key ingredients in PectaClear ® is Alginate, which is a viscous gum (glutinous in nature,
thick, sticky) derived from the
cell wall of brown algae (seaweed).
The
cell block rooms guarantee a peaceful night's sleep with meter -
thick brick
walls, while standard amenities include a flat - screen TV, a minibar and a pillow selection.
The director's office is high - ceilinged, shabby - grand, but also, with its
thick walls and silence, its posters slightly too small for the expanses of white plaster, a bare and somewhat lonely place — like an isolation
cell, or a very posh bunker.
Trees tend to produce
cells with
thicker walls at the end of the growing season, forming a dark band of dense wood.
When viewed in detail (Fig. 10.1) it is clear that they are made up of sequences of large, thin -
walled cells (earlywood) and more densely packed,
thick -
walled cells (latewood).
These are followed by smaller,
thick -
walled and denser
cells late in the growing season which form due to the onset of cooler temperatures, lack of soil moisture, and shorter days.
Each tree ring is composed of large thin -
walled cells called (early wood) and smaller more densely packed
thick walled cells called (late wood).
The earlywood is made up of large, thin -
walled tracheid
cells and the latewood, of smaller,
thicker -
walled cells.
Latewood is composed of small
thick walled tracheid
cells compressed tightly together that appear much darker in color.
The earlywood is made up of large and relatively thin -
walled cells (tracheids); latewood is made up of small
thick -
walled tracheids.
There are two types of
cells know as the earlywood
cells which have thin
walls and latewood which have
thicker walls and are packed closer together.
If you're at work or home in a building where
cell service is weak, like a
thick -
walled house or a city apartment, leaving Wi - Fi on and connected to a stable network helps maintain your battery throughout the day.