What's the difference between archegonium and venter?

Archegonium


Definition:

  • (n.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It moves down the neck of the archegonium into the cavity above the egg.

Venter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
  • (n.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
  • (n.) The uterus, or womb.
  • (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
  • (n.) The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
  • (n.) A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
  • (2) In 17 out of 18 such patients, the two-week therapy with sucralfat (venter) resulted in the disappearance of esophagitis with multiple erosions.
  • (3) At the same time, Craig Venter was racing to sequence the human genome through his company, Celera, with the intention of charging reseachers for access to the information.
  • (4) The cell instantly starts reading that new software, starts making a whole different set of proteins, and in a short while, all the characteristics of the first species disappear and a new species emerges," Venter said.
  • (5) Last year, scientists at the J Craig Venter Institute successfully transferred an entire genome from one bacterium to another.
  • (6) "Nobody wants their kid to be the first one off the block to make the Ebola virus," says Venter.
  • (7) Venter has secured a deal with the oil giant ExxonMobil to create algae that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into fuel — an innovation he believes could be worth more than a trillion dollars.
  • (8) In order to study the effect of running on ATPase activity of myofibril and myosin in the hindlimb muscles, male wister rats of the same venter weighing approximately 50 g were housed in individual cages and allowed to run unimpeded on a treadwheel for 25-30 days.
  • (9) Gavin Venter, a former jockey who worked for Steenkamp's father, said: "Without a doubt he's a danger to the public.
  • (10) Dr Venter is a brilliant scientist, a successful entrepreneur and a man who knows how to sell his ideas.
  • (11) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
  • (12) "Each day approximately 2,000 die in America from cancer," Dr Venter said.
  • (13) Group I was treated by the drugs combination (methacin, almagel, gastrofarm, solcoseryl, tazepam, rudotel), group II received gastrocepin, group III venter.
  • (14) Such possibilities arise in reducing mammaplasty and venter propendens.
  • (15) These data support the hypothesis that the heart consists of three suborgans; the cushion, venter (pump), and infundibulum.
  • (16) On the publication of his autobiography, Venter also brought out another book, one that contained the six billion characters of his own genome.
  • (17) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
  • (18) Brand has got to know Venter over the last couple of years through John Brockman's Edge initiative which brings together the world's pioneering minds.
  • (19) It was the first full catalogue of a single individual's genetic code and it revealed several secrets about Venter's inherited traits, notably a predisposition to heart disease and to Alzheimer's.
  • (20) Earlier this year, I attended a weekend organised by the Singularity University , a sort of Silicon Valley thinktank co-founded by the futurist Ray Kurzweil and the founder of the X prize, Pete Diamandis, and after presentations by Craig Venter , who sequenced the human genome, and Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet", a voice down the front asked a question.