motile

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1. motile - Noun

2. motile - Adjective

3. motile - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

Producing motion; as, motile powers.

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Animal tissues Stylized cutaway diagram of an animal cell (with flagella) The kingdom Animalia or metazoa, contains multicellular organisms that are heterotrophic and motile (although some have secondarily adopted a sessile lifestyle). Source: Internet

The axoneme of primary cilia typically has a ring of nine outer microtubule doublets (called a 9+0 axoneme), and the axoneme of a motile cilium has two central microtubule singlets in addition to the nine outer doublets (called a 9+2 axoneme). Source: Internet

Ruppert, Fox & Barnes (2004) pp. 911–912 The majority of crinoids are motile but the sea lilies are sessile and attached to hard substrates by stalks. Source: Internet

In comparison to motile cilia, non-motile (or primary) cilia usually occur one per cell; nearly all mammalian cells have a single non-motile primary cilium. Source: Internet

In his work on Myxomycetes (1858), he pointed out that at one stage of their life cycle (the plasmodial stage), they were little more than formless, motile masses of the substance that Félix Dujardin (1801–1860) had called sarcode ( protoplasm ). Source: Internet

Most isolates exist in two phases: a motile phase I and a nonmotile phase II. Source: Internet

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