(n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) An an initial stage in the study of proteins from thermophilic algae, the enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase 2-phospho-D-glycerate carboxylyase (dimerizing, EC 4.1.1.39) was purified 11-fold from the thermophilic alga Cyandium caldarium, with a 24% recovery.
(2) The structures of 1 and 2 are closely related to the metabolites previously isolated from the alga Caulerpa prolifera.
(3) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(5) Dunaliella bardawil, a unicellular green alga that can be induced to accumulate massive amounts of beta-carotene, is particularly suitable for studies of carotenogenesis regulation and its links to developmental and adaptive processes in the chloroplast.
(6) Among the algae species studied, Falkenbergia rufolanosa is the most active in front of all the fungi tested.
(7) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(8) The light-induced turnover of P700 was measured spectrophotometrically in a wide variety of algae and some photosynthetic mutants.
(9) In excised regenerating peduncles algae divide before digestive cells, and at the onset of digestive cell division mitotic cells were found to contain almost twice the number of algae as before excision.
(10) Cell division in Euglena is compared with that of certain other algae.
(11) An enzyme was isolated from a eucaryotic, Chlorella-like green alga infected with the virus PBCV-1 which exhibits type II restriction endonuclease activity.
(12) The amoeba, however, could not use yeasts, molds, or a green alga as a nutritional source.
(13) The photochemical activities and fluorescence properties of cells, spheroplasts and spheroplast particles from the blue-green alga Phormidium luridum were compared.
(14) Free amino acid pools were examined for cultures of vegetative cells, gametes, and mature zygotes of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dangeard).
(15) Crude ferredoxin preparations were obtained from blue-green algae, green algae, ferns, and higher plants.
(16) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(17) A pure culture of the green eukaryotic alga Chlorococcum sp.
(18) The alga may be defective in a regulatory mechanism that controls the reoxidation of reduced pyridine nucleotides formed during photosynthesis.
(19) Methods are described for preparation of pulse-labeled ribonucleic acid (RNA) from the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans.
(20) Methyl-5(or 4)-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazeno)-imidazole-4(or 5)-carboxylate was shown to have in vitro antimicrobial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi, and algae.
Alma
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Almah
Example Sentences:
(1) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
(2) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
(3) The world was caught by the phrase which emerged from this conference, "Health For All by the Year 2000" and many have examined the articles of the Alma-Ata declaration and tried to implement them in their corner of the world.
(4) Primary health care has developed well since the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, but basic lifesaving interventions have received scant attention.
(5) Drawing upon data collected from a comprehensive field survey of community health activities in Hiketa, in Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku, and other similar surveys carried out in Japan, as well as references such as the Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care (Alma Ata), and the World Health Organization Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000, this background paper will outline the critical aspects to be considered in implementation of primary health care in comprehensive health systems, as a context for further discussion.
(6) The territorial-geographical character of migration also changed: so, in 1954 the basic flow of migrants came from Siberia and the European part of the USSR, while in 1984 they came from neighbouring regions of Alma-Ata.
(7) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
(8) 2,530 patients with chronic destructive tuberculosis, registered at the antituberculosis institutions of the Alma-Ata and Guriyev regions, were followed up for a period of three years.
(9) Clegg also signalled his disapproval at the behaviour of his alma mater.
(10) Five years have passed since the Alma Ata meeting, and with 17 years remaining in this century, one has to ponder whether the goal of health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care is achievable.
(11) 414 patients registered under O-group, 149-under VIIB and 129-under IA were observed by the antituberculosis dispensary of Alma-Ata.
(12) This approach contradicts the Declaration of the Alma-Ata Conference, which states that primary health care is an integral part of the socioeconomic development process and that health sector activities must be coordinated with nutrition improvement, increases in production and employment, a more equitable distribution of income, antipoverty measures, and protection of the environment.
(13) Active intervention aimed at preventing the mentioned risk factors, carried out in Kharkov (2 years) and in Alma-Ata (1 year) led to a decrease in the prevalence of arterial hypertension and smoking, and to an increase in the degree of the student's physical activity, but did not have a demonstrable effect on the development of overweight.
(14) A dedicated sequence editor, ALMA, was developed for aligning many sequences of proteins or RNA molecules or longer DNA fragments.
(15) "Health for all by year 2000" was the subject of the WHO Conference at Alma-Ata in 1978.
(16) Now the ombudsman at the University of Bayreuth, his alma mater, is investigating allegations of plagiarism made against Zu Guttenberg by a law professor.
(17) What has become clear in the 10 years since Alma-Ata is the global split between the health of the "haves" and the "have nots".
(18) In designing country health care programs to achieve the goals of the Alma Alta declaration of 'Health for All', developing countries have been confronted with the problem of increased health care needs and decreased available resources.
(19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
(20) It is unlikely that the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata goal of health for all by the year 2000 will be realized by the turn of the century.