What's the difference between clasper and copulation?
Clasper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
(n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
(n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Ormerod, who joined the ITV board in January 2008, will replace Clasper as chairman of the audit committee.
(2) Sir Peter, 62, is believed to be backing BAA chief executive Mike Clasper to take over as chief executive.
(3) It utilizes the clasper from male pharate adult European corn borers and measures the incorporation of [14C]N-acetylglucosamine.
(4) Earlier this week ITV named non-executive director Mike Clasper, the former head of airports operator BAA, as Crosby's replacement .
(5) ITV has named board member Mike Clasper as non-executive senior independent director to replace the outgoing Sir James Crosby.
(6) Photograph: Oliver Clasper Away from the main competition, James Franco continues his journey through the landmarks of American literature, adapting William Faulkner's classic 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury for the screen.
(7) Photograph: Oliver Clasper As Anwar had nightmares about his past, so did Oppenheimer ("A family reunion transforming gradually into a scene where somebody I loved was being tortured or killed").
(8) (1972) transformations from eye to abdominal like structures, eye to antennal like structures, eye to palpus like structures, rostralhaut to genital like structures, rostralhaut to clasper teeth, and rostralhaut to antennal like structures were observed.
(9) The two subspecies of Glossina palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy) occurring in Liberia could be reliably separated morphometrically by measuring the width of the terminal dilatations of the male inferior claspers.
(10) The more acute shape of the ninth sternite separates X. bantorum from all types of X. cheopis; however, the length of the first process of the male's clasper and the number of setae on this process are significantly different among all three groups; the Nilotic strain of X. cheopis is intermediate to the others.
(11) You are therefore wrong to associate me with accountability for performance in this area.” HMRC’s chairman at the time was a business outsider, Mike Clasper, the former chief executive of airports operator BAA.
(12) Clasper, who used to run the airports operator BAA, will take over from Crosby on 1 January in a move that coincides with the arrival of chairman Archie Norman .
(13) Clasper was appointed to the ITV board in January 2006.
(14) Chitin synthesis is maximum in claspers taken from animals 5 and 6 days postpupation.
Copulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
(n.) The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(2) The inhibition is desappears if placed under copulation conditions during a full cycle.
(3) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(4) Eight rats of the PCPA group and only two of the vehicle, started to copulate.
(5) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(6) Duration of copulation in mixed combinations of D. athabasca is determined by the male.
(7) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
(8) On average, copulation lasted 27.2 s and was completed in flight.
(9) The surface membrane enzyme activity disappears from the zygote shortly after copulation and at the same time lysosome-like bodies start to appear in the cytoplasm.
(10) There was no seasonal fluctuation in copulative activity.
(11) Since courtship song increases a females' receptivity to copulation, the frequency of mating within a short observation period was used as a measure of the ability of mutant females to distinguish between singing males and males that were unable to sing.
(12) Copulations with other adults males also occurred during all cycle phases, but were most frequent peri-ovulatory.
(13) Copulation occurred more often on the occasion of the first attempt by the male.
(14) In the second experiment, intact females copulated twice with a male: once when they were able to hear and once when they were temporarily deafened with a medical ear mold.
(15) The gene products are secreted into the male duct and transferred to the female copulant during copulation.
(16) Pregnant C3H mice were exposed to teratogenic doses of cyclophosphamide (CPA), on the 11th day after copulation.
(17) Thiazide-type diuretics also produce erectile dysfunction in rats and interfere with normal copulation.
(18) Morphine administered rats showed a loss of weight, hypertrophy of the adrenals, decreased weight of accessory sex organs, low sperm count, and decreased copulation rate.
(19) La Crosse virus was detected in the bursa of females after induced copulation, and disseminated infection was shown to occur occasionally.
(20) Mangabeys spend 47% of activity observations feeding, 27% moving, and the remainder of the activity observations is accounted for by grooming, playing, vocalizing, copulating, etc.