(n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
(n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(2) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
(3) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
(4) In the animals the assimilation of the administered thiamin constituted 17,5-20% as compared with healthy animals; this phenomenon was accompanied by an increased urinary excretion of the vitamin.
(5) Results of these tests suggest that assimilation of protocatechuate and p-hydroxybenzoate may be a useful characteristic, when used in conjunction with traditional tests, for identifying C. parapsilosis and C. albidus.
(6) For each of the 3 major age groups (young, intermediate, and older), the paper describes general characteristics for children's though processes, ways in which children assimilate information about various aspects of AIDs, and implications for educating children about causes, prevention, and fear of AIDS.
(7) A gene (FRE1) was identified which encodes a protein required for both ferric iron reduction and efficient ferric iron assimilation, thus linking these two activities.
(8) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
(9) The dynamics and composition of labeled products formed upon assimilation of 14C-bicarbonate in the presence of unlabeled carbon oxide by the two organisms, the composition of products formed upon assimilation of 14CO by suspensions of S. carboxydohydrogena Z-1062 during 5 minutes, and the dynamics and composition of labeled assimilates of A. carboxydus Z-1171 after incubation in the presence of 14CO, were found to be consistent with those expected in the action of the reductive pentose phosphate Calvin cycle.
(10) The amino-oligopeptidase of the intestinal brush border possesses high specificity for oligopeptides having bulky side chains and is a candidate for a crucial role in the overall assimilation of dietary protein.
(11) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
(12) "They are over-assimilating to a culture that some men are now saying they don't want."
(13) NADH-GDH and AIDH are induced by ammonia, and it is suggested that these enzymes are involved in primary nitrogen assimilation.
(14) Close contacts of the yeast cells with the hydrocarbon being assimilated is important; assimilation may start in a close vicinity of the cell walls.
(15) The results suggest that the assimilation of amino acids by growing fungal cells was quantitatively comparable with their dissimilation to metabolites.
(16) This gene cluster is required for the assimilation of nitrate in A. nidulans, and the three genes encode a product required for nitrate uptake and the enzymes, nitrite reductase and nitrate reductase, respectively.
(17) The 21 biochemical and assimilation tests on the Rapid NFT test strips were treated according to the manufacturer's protocol, which included use of AUX medium (provided with the Rapid NFT system) for preparing assimilation tests, and by substituting phenol red broth base (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.)
(18) Previous studies indicate that schizophrenic thought processes show a disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation, as Piaget uses these terms.
(19) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
(20) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.
Dissimilation
Definition:
(n.) The act of making dissimilar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that the assimilation of amino acids by growing fungal cells was quantitatively comparable with their dissimilation to metabolites.
(2) The major products of pyruvate dissimilation by washed intact cells of Achromobacter N4-B under nitrogen-fixing conditions are acetate and formate.
(3) In faecal slurries, however, denitrification was a relatively minor route of NO3- dissimilation, since only about 3% of the NO3- was converted to gaseous products, with NO3- being mainly reduced to NO2- and NH4+.
(4) Whereas most xylose was dissimilated rather than assimilated by S. cerevisiae, the organism apparently possesses a pathway which completely oxidizes xylose in the presence of another substrate.
(5) Complete dissimilation within 24 h by isolate "Y" cultures supplemented with 0.5% yeast extract is presumed since no TNT was detectable.
(6) This leads to an ergotropic dissimilation of the required value and works to prevent parkinsonism; autism is among the main symptoms.
(7) The distinctive metabolism produced by dissimilation of different carbon sources also profound effects upon glyphosate sensitivity.
(8) The different strategies of microorganisms to protect their nitrogenases for oxygen inactivation and the regulation of dissimilative nitrate reduction by oxygen are demonstrated in detail.
(9) Formaldehyde is oxidized to CO2 in the dissimilation branch of the cycle providing energy for biosynthesis; this confirmed by higher levels of dehydrogenases of glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate during the methylotrophous growth of the cells.
(10) A mutant of Escherichia coli that employs a glycerol:nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide 2-oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.6), instead of adenosine 5'-triphosphate:glycerol 3-phosphotransferase (EC 2.7.1.30), as the first enzyme for the dissimilation of glycerol was constructed.
(11) Instead, a non-cyclic pentose phosphate pathway along with the Krebs cycle is apparently the major route of glucose dissimilation in this organism.
(12) The data indicate that T. denticola derives energy by dissimilating L-argine via the arginine iminohydrolase pathway.
(13) These studies employed the glucose-repressible, beta-galactosidase system of Escherichia coli and involved an investigation of glucose dissimilation under cultural conditions capable of permitting or preventing expression of catabolite repression.
(14) No mutant defective in the degradation of both phenols was found, indicating separate pathways for the dissimilation of the compounds.
(15) Ability to initiate growth at 45 C, production of ammonia from arginine, dissimilation of malate, and fermentation of arabinose are confirmatory characteristics.
(16) The conversion of mannose to fructose is the first step in the principal pathway of mannose dissimilation by Pseudomonas cepacia.
(17) An elevated content of protein in the rations of young animals, as distinct from the old ones, promotes activation of the assimilation and dissimilation phases of the proteinic metabolism.
(18) The changes in the heat stable fraction was inconstant and may be attributed to extrahepatic bilharzial dissimilation.
(19) The products of the anaerobic dissimilation of glucose were determined.
(20) The first two enzymes employed by a Bacillus species for the dissimilation of nicotinic acid are coordinately induced.