"Motile" Quotes from Famous Books
... Pistil vigorously motile (so that whole flower shakes when pistil suddenly coils up); when excited by a touch the two filaments [are] produced laterally and transversely across the flower (just over the nectar) from one of the petals or modified stamens. It is splendid to watch the phenomenon ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... in reproduction, that function being relegated to the activities of a few cells which broke away and united with others similarly adrift. These cells functioning for reproduction continued to differentiate more and more, until large ova and small, motile spermtozoa were definitely developed. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
... are of two kinds are, first, a generally aggressive and motile fertilizing or so-called "male cell," called in its typical form an antherozoid; and, second, a passive and motionless receptive or so-called "female ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various
... the vibrios, which crowded the liquid as motile threads, are destroyed and disappear. After the action of the air, only fine amorphous granules can be found, unfit for culture as well as for the transmission of any disease whatever. It might be said that the air ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various
... certain that he has isolated a very motile bacterium in the snow. It is probably air borne, and though no bacteria have been found in the air, this may be carried in upper currents and brought down by the snow. If correct it is ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott |