Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not motile; not capable of moving of itself.
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Examples
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Bacteria become non-motile if you remove a component from it's core.
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When the engine no longer works “non-motile phenotype”, was the gene for the motor function is essential.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Why would humans have developed large, hungry brains capable of self-awareness, prediction, and social awareness if our food source was non-motile, and not cunning or generally dangerous?
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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"A fliD-deficient mutant becomes non-motile because it lacks flagellar filaments and leaks flagellin monomer out into the medium."
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"A fliD-deficient mutant becomes non-motile because it lacks flagellar filaments and leaks flagellin monomer out into the medium."
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Well, you were mostly doing pathogenic bacteria, but it was a pity you didn't do any dimorphic prosthecate bacteria -- these are bacteria that have two different cell types -- non-motile "mother" cells and "daughter/swarmer" cells that swim off to eventually lose their motility and become mother cells themselves.
A word from the zoo keeper.. Emma Lurie 2007
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Division planes regular and definite: -- _Sarcina_ (Goods.), cells non-motile; growth and division in three successive planes at right angles, resulting in packet-like groups; _Planosarcina_ (Migula), as before, but motile;
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Division in all or any planes, colonies indefinite in shape and size, of cells in short chains, irregular clumps, pairs or isolated: -- _Micrococcus_ (Cohn), cells non-motile; _Planococcus_ (Migula), cells motile.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Nor must we overlook the possibility that the endospore-formation in non-motile bacteria more than merely resembles the development of azygospores in the Conjugatae, and some Ulothricaceae, if reduced in size, would resemble them.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Sporogenous rodlets cylindric, not altered in shape: -- _Bacillus_ (Cohn), non-motile; _Bactrinium_
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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