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Definition: Myxobacteria |
MyxobacteriaNoun1. Bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Myxobacteria" is a common misspelling or typo for: Mycobacterium. |
Synonyms: MyxobacteriaSynonyms: gliding bacteria (n), myxobacter (n), myxobacterium (n), slime bacteria (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Myxobacteria can move actively by gliding. They typically travel in swarms, containing many cells kept together by intercellular molecular signals. This close concentration of cells may be necessary to provide a high concentration of extracellular enzymes used to digest food. Myxobacteria produce a number of biomedically and industrially useful chemicals, such as antibiotics, and export those chemicals outside of the cell.
When nutrients are scarce, myxobacteria cells aggregate by chemotaxis into fruiting bodies. These fruiting bodies can take different shapes and colors, depending on the species. Within the fruiting bodies, cells begin as rod-shaped vegetative cells, and develop into rounded myxospores with thick cell walls. These myxospores, analogously to spores in other organisms, are meant to survive until nutrients are more plentiful. The fruiting process is thought to benefit myxobacteria by ensuring that cell growth is resumed with a group (swarm) of myxobacteria, rather than as isolated cells. Similar life cycles have developed among certain amoebae, called cellular slime molds.
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Crosswords: Myxobacteria |
| English words defined with "myxobacteria": genus Polyangium ♦ Polyangium. (references) |
| "Myxobacteria" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Myxobacteria" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "myxobacteria": order Myxobacteria. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
myxobacteria | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-m-o-r-t-x-y" | |
-3 letters: aerobatic. | |
-4 letters: acerbity, aromatic, bacteria, biometry, boracite, combater, cometary, crabmeat, maxicoat, toxaemia, toxaemic. | |
-5 letters: abreact, acrobat, acromia, aerobia, aerobic, airboat, amatory, amirate, amoebic, atemoya, barytic, bearcat, bromate, cabaret, coremia, cymatia, erotica, exactor, excitor, exotica, iceboat, macaber, macabre, marcato, microbe, mortice, taxemic, taxicab, toxemia, toxemic, xerotic. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01111000 01101111 01100010 01100001 01100011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y x o b a c t e r i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0079 0078 006F 0062 0061 0063 0074 0065 0072 0069 0061 |
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