Sentences with phrase «tiny flagellum»

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

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

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.

Centrioles are tiny structures in the cell that play an important role in cell division and in the assembly of cilia and flagella.

Found in termite hindguts, this tiny creature with more than 20 flagella is named for H.P. Lovecraft's tentacle - headed demon Cthulhu.

Researchers knew that Bsal makes spores with a tiny tail called a flagellum, which propels them toward amphibians.

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.