Dictionary definition: genetic

Article: Research in the area of bacteriology reported from University of ...
Life Science Weekly;  September 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... one Omp85-like protein, Omp85(Tt), representing an ancestral type of this family. We overexpressed Omp85(Tt) in T. thermophilus ... Bacteriology (Omp85(Tt) from Thennus thermophilus HB27: an ancestral type of the omp85 protein family. Journal of Bacteriology ...

Article: Direction of karyotype evolution in the bug family Nabidae ...
European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the family was created to reveal the taxon closest to the ancestral type and hence the ancestral karyotype. The phylogeny was based ... suggests that the subfamily Prostemmatinae displayes the ancestral type of sex chromosome behaviour and hence indicates that a high ...

Article: Masters, mistresses and mysteries
The Spectator;  October 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... with each other by 'morphic resonance'. That, he says, is how evolution works. Every individual conforms to a certain ancestral type, but these types are not fixed; every individual adapts them and passes them on to descendants in a slightly modified ...

Article: Ignoble origin for flowering plants. (angiosperms found in ...
Science News;  July 18, 1992 ;     557 words ... ... the plant kingdom. Paleobotanists have traditionally thought that angiosperms had a noble origin, having evolved from an ancestral type of tree related to the magnolia. Recently, though, some workers have suggested a much seedier beginning, theorizing ...

Article: Monkeying with dogwood evolution. (effects of feeding habits of ...
Science News;  March 1, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... the appetite of Old World monkeys. The bean-sized simple fruits, common to the majority of dogwoods, appear to be the ancestral type. Eyde is studying a subgroup of dogwoods that includes the common North American flowering dogwood, which bears the simple ...

Article: Development of the Larval Serotonergic Nervous System in the Sea ...
The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Hart et al., 1997). A major aim of this study was to obtain a more complete picture of 5-HT-like expression in the ancestral-type larvae of P. regularis and demonstrate that during the development of P. regularis small changes in gross morphology coincide ...

Dictionary definition: dipleurula larva
A Dictionary of Zoology;      289 words ... ... echinoderm ( Echinodermata ) larva that incorporates features common to all types of echinoderm larvae and is hypothetically the ancestral type. It has bilateral symmetry , three coelomic sacs (see COELOM ), longitudinal ciliated bands for locomotion, and adoral ...