Tuesday, February 09, 2016 4:27:03 PM
conix -- here's where you fit in:
Bacteria 'see' like tiny eyeballs
Biologists say they have solved the riddle of how a tiny bacterium senses light and moves towards it: the entire organism acts like an eyeball.
In a single-celled pond slime, they observed how incoming rays are bent by the bug's spherical surface and focused in a spot on the far side of the cell.
9 February 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35502310
study: http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e12620
knock off the trolling
Bacteria 'see' like tiny eyeballs
Biologists say they have solved the riddle of how a tiny bacterium senses light and moves towards it: the entire organism acts like an eyeball.
In a single-celled pond slime, they observed how incoming rays are bent by the bug's spherical surface and focused in a spot on the far side of the cell.
9 February 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35502310
study: http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e12620
knock off the trolling
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