motility vs. mobility
philipp.wechner at uibk.ac.at
Sun Jan 2 20:09:09 EST 2000
> Fred Pruyn wrote:
> > Who knows why the capability of moving of bacteria is called motility and
> > not as usual mobility? Is there something special to their movement?
> > I hope there some real linguistics present in these ng's.
> > Besides that A fruitful New Year!
> > Fred Pruyn, The Netherlands
> Fred !!!It's only in the English language that they're called motile!
Sorry, but that's wrong! Also in the German language there are two words. I
Think Bob did explain it correctly.
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