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- adjective biology Having the ability to
orientate in line with amagnetic field
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So-called magnetotactic bacteria create a chain of magnetite grains to help orient themselves in their search for nutrients.
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The magnetite crystals on Earth - and we didn't realize this until the mid-1970s - there are these organisms called magnetotactic bacteria.
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At the time, Kathie Thomas-Keprta, a biochemist and senior scientist at Lockheed Martin's Johnson Space Center in Houston, had been studying the crystal structure and purity of magnetite beads manufactured in a species of Earth-based bacteria called magnetotactic, or MV-1.
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On p 4066 you will find fig 12 c-d deconvolution for the size distributions of magnetites from ALH84001 and terrestrial MV-1 magnetotactic bacteria.
New Findings Say Mars Methane Comes from Life or Water — or Both | Universe Today 2009
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They are eyeballing figures in a log diagram and trying to convince the reader that the ALH84001 magnetites are akin to a biological sample from a magnetotactic bacteria, and they are, and also that they aren't log-normal distributed, which is more uncertain despite their "helpful" sketch of one such distribution.
New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life | Universe Today 2009
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Madiraju had been trying to come up with a science project that could benefit the environment when he ran across an article on magnetotactic bacteria in the science journal Nature.
Electrical energy from spinning bacteria Edward Willett 2006
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Madiraju had been trying to come up with a science project that could benefit the environment when he ran across an article on magnetotactic bacteria in the science journal Nature.
Archive 2006-05-14 Edward Willett 2006
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Discovered in 1975 by Richard P. Blakemore, magnetic (or, more precisely, magnetotactic) bacteria make tiny iron-containing magnetic particles.
Archive 2006-05-14 Edward Willett 2006
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In the southern hemisphere, of course, geomagnetic north points up and at an angle — and the magnetotactic bacteria there are south-seeking rather than north-seeking, and thus still able to head down deeper into their environment to escape oxygen.
Electrical energy from spinning bacteria Edward Willett 2006
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Discovered in 1975 by Richard P. Blakemore, magnetic (or, more precisely, magnetotactic) bacteria make tiny iron-containing magnetic particles.
Electrical energy from spinning bacteria Edward Willett 2006
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