What's the difference between alga and coenocyte?

Alga


Definition:

  • (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.

Coenocyte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Successful freeze-etching of a coenocyte has been accomplished with glutaraldehyde stabilization followed by infiltration with cryoprotectant.
  • (2) Hyphae of the coenocytic water mold Achlya were stabilized with 5% glutaraldehyde in phosphate buffer.
  • (3) In the presence of oxygen, they propagate as branching coenocytic hyphae.
  • (4) Our demonstration that RNA and DNA metabolism is aberrant in cleavage-arrested embryos requires reevaluation of previous experiments on transcriptional activation that utilized such coenocytic embryos.
  • (5) We have isolated and characterized by restriction endonuclease mapping, transcription pattern, and DNA sequencing a beta-tubulin gene from the coenocytic freshwater protoctist, Achlya klebsiana.
  • (6) In cleavage-arrested (coenocytic) embryos, the reduced level of DNA at MBT results both in a decrease in snRNA and tRNA synthesis (reflecting the lower gene dosage) and in a prolonged synthesis of large amounts of unusual RNA polymerase III transcripts, OAX RNAs.
  • (7) The large coenocytes of the alga were plasmolysed and the wall separated by cutting it away.
  • (8) Bidirectional organelle movements taking place in the cytoplasm of the rhizomes of Caulerpa, a coenocytic marine green alga, have been indicated to be dependent on microtubules (Kuroda, K. & Manabe, E. (1983) Proc.
  • (9) Since the inherited population of parental mtDNA molecules are not partitioned into cells in this coenocytic organism, no known mechanism of inheritance can explain the rapid and apparently random loss of one parental mtDNA type in individuals.
  • (10) Cells of Nocardia corallina ATCC 4273 form multiply branched coenocytic mycelia and subsequent fragment to spherical cells when grown on solidified complex media.
  • (11) The life cycle of Achlya involves germination of spores to form coenocytic somatic hyphae, followed by differentiation of hyphal tips into sporangia.

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