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- Statolith may refer to: A structure in the statocyst, which allows certain invertebrates to sense gravity and balance A structure in the statocyte, cells...
- structure containing a mineralised m**** (statolith) and numerous innervated sensory hairs (setae). The statolith's inertia causes it to push against the...
- green. Amyloplasts are thought to play a vital role in gravitropism. Statoliths, a specialized starch-ac****ulating amyloplast, are denser than cytoplasm...
- with hairs which detect the movements of internal mineral grains called statoliths. If the body tilts in the wrong direction, the animal rights itself by...
- ability to sense gravity in several ways, one of which is through statoliths. Statoliths are dense amyloplasts, organelles that synthesize and store starch...
- Gr****: ὠτο-, ōto- ear + λῐ́θος, líthos, a stone), also called otoconium, statolith, or statoconium, is a calcium carbonate structure in the saccule or utricle...
- organ's main component is a statocyst, a balance sensor consisting of a statolith, a tiny grain of calcium carbonate, supported on four bundles of cilia...
- longfin squid eggs took longer to hatch in acidified water, and the squid's statolith was smaller and malformed in animals placed in sea water with a lower...
- Apical meristem in root tip: 1: Meristem 2: Columella     showing statocytes with statoliths 3: Lateral part of the tip 4: Dead cells 5: Elongation zone...
- amyloplasts-statoliths – starch-filled amyloplastic organelleswhich sediment at the lowest part of the cells. In the roots, sedimentation of the statoliths towards...