Sentences with word «whiplike»

P. rosinae adults likely measured about 20 centimeters long, with half of that being a long, whiplike tail.

The similarity in names is no accident, for these are single - celled creatures, with whiplike flagella surrounded by a collar of microvilli, and they bear an amazing resemblance to the choanocyte cells of sponges.

His primers seek out bits of DNA coding for part of the spirochete's flagella — tiny, whiplike structures that help propel it through the bloodstream.

Once stung, angry, red, whiplike lash marks mar the skin.

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.

Yoshi not only has a more floaty jump to help Mario across more dangerous chasms, but he also provides the game's best use of motion controls, as Yoshi's whiplike tongue is controlled by pointing the Wii remote to gobble up enemies or interact with objects.

Surprisingly, this ratio was unaffected by a large range of temperature, irradiance (the amount of radiant energy per unit area), nutrient conditions, and the local microbial community, including diatoms (a type of algae) and flagellates (organisms self - propelled by whiplike appendages).

He urged Andre to open his stances and snap his wrist, creating the whiplike torque that makes his forehand the rival of Sampras's serve as the truest, most powerful blow in the game.

Cajal also figured out that nerve cells are polar, meaning that signals enter the cell through the shrubbery of the dendrites at one end and leave through the other end at the whiplike axon.

As they worked with Vibrio, they noticed that a protein in its flagellum — a whiplike tail used for swimming — triggered a particularly strong response from immune cells.

Neurologist Kazunobu Sawamoto at Keio University in Japan and an international team of his colleagues used fluorescent dye and India ink to trace the flow of spinal fluid in mice and found that it followed the whiplike waving of hairlike projections known as cilia from cells lining the route.

A fly sperm consists of a tiny head containing its nucleus and a whiplike tail up to 20 times longer than the egg.

The whiplike tail has curls for the first few inches, the rest is naked skin or is covered with short, fine hairs.

Some of these drawings appeared in concert with Marden's paintings at his 2006 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, but I admit readily to being one of those repeat visitors who powered through the drawings, favoring instead bold arrays of beguiling monochromes and the whiplike organic fervor in Marden's Cold Mountain series and later works.

, but I admit readily to being one of those repeat visitors who powered through the drawings, favoring instead bold arrays of beguiling monochromes and the whiplike organic fervor in Marden's