What's the difference between animalcule and heliozoa?

Animalcule


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
  • (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.

Heliozoa


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that the justification of the conventional classification of Heliozoa is questionable.
  • (2) The effects of helium, nitrogen, argon and krypton on Echinosphaerium nucleofilum (Heliozoa) have been studied at partial pressures of 10-130 atm.
  • (3) Comparative studies of axopodial microtubule pattern in 10 different centrohelidan Heliozoa belonging to the genera Acanthocystis, Raphidiophrys and Heterophrys suggest that 2 basic principles govern pattern formation in centrohelidan Heliozoa.
  • (4) The fine structure of Heterophrys marina (Centrohelidia, Heliozoa) is described with special reference to centroplast structure, morphogenesis and "behavior" of kinetocysts (= axopodial granules which perform saltatory movement), and formation of organic spicules in a new type of organelle located in the plasma membrane.

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