What's the difference between cowrie and gastropod?
Cowrie
Definition:
(n.) Same as Kauri.
(n.) Alt. of Cowry
Example Sentences:
(1) It was great: a sort of cryptographic cowrie shell for virtual fish.
(2) If one cowrie shell bought a fish, there wasn't any risk that some fisherman would try to corner the market and push the price of fish up in order to become rich.
(3) Cowrie shells were a 13th-century medium of exchange: they were a fairly effective currency at a time when there was no risk that people might hoard them in order to speculate on their value rising.
(4) It’s an old jetty in the city’s Ikoyi neighbourhood that sticks out into the still waters of Five Cowrie Creek, which separates Lagos Island from the Lekki Peninsula at its westernmost tip.
(5) Look out for "groatie-buckies", small cowrie shells often found here.
(6) But Bitcoin is just a bunch of people trading cryptographic cowrie shells - but now with internet-speed ability to see instantaneous prices, and with a burgeoning desire to spend it on "real" things.
Gastropod
Definition:
(n.) One of the Gastropoda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The eyes of certain marine gastropods including Aplysia and Bulla, contain circadian pacemakers, which produce a circadian rhythm of autogenous compound action potential (CAP) activity.
(2) Escherichia coli transformed with a plasmid carrying the RuBisCO operon of the gastropod symbiont in the proper orientation for transcription from the plasmid lac promoter expressed catalytically active RuBisCO.
(3) Parelaphostrongylus tenuis infections were found in 15 gastropods (2.2% prevalence) representing 5 species; 5 of the infected gastropods were D. laeve.
(4) Ecdysteroids have been detected in trematode parasites and in several species of gastropod snails.
(5) The fluorescent dye 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (5-CF) travels quickly up the nerves of the gastropod mollusc, Lymnaea stagnalis into the buccal ganglia and fills the cell bodies in 1-3 h. 5-CF filled neurones can be located in the intact ganglia with low intensity blue light.
(6) The structure and function of the digestive gland of the gastropod mollusc, Bithynia tentaculata, was investigated using ultrastructural, histochemical, and cytochemical techniques.
(7) We have begun the study of the molecular and cell biology of embryos, larvae and recruits having as a final goal, the development of appropriate biotechnologies to rear this gastropod.
(8) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(9) Immunocytochemical methods using an antiserum raised against ovine corticoliberin revealed perikarya and processes in the central and peripheral nervous system of the Pulmonate Gastropod Helix pomatia.
(10) The distribution of monoamines in the central ganglia of the nudibranch gastropod Hermissenda crassicornis was examined through the histological localization of both glyoxylic acid-induced fluorescence and serotonin-like immunoreactivity.
(11) The hemocyanins of the Fissurellidae, Naticidae and Melongenidae families of marine gastropods as well as some other molluscs including some members of the Opistobranchia and Bivalvia groups have hemocyanins which exist in solution as tri-decameric and mixed, multi-decameric aggregates characterized by sedimentation coefficients close to 100 S, 130 S, 150 S, 170 S and 200 S to 230 S. 2.
(12) The accumulation of cadmium, zinc and copper by the marine gastropod molluscs Patella vulgata and Patella intermedia has been studied by gel permeation chromatography of water-soluble extracts of environmentally contaminated shellfish.
(13) The effect of antipsychotic drugs was tested on responses to micro-electrophoretically applied dopamine, acetylcholine and 5-hydroxytryptamine in identified neurons of the marine gastropod Aplysia californica.
(14) The distribution of FMRFamide-like material in the gastropod mollusc, Helix aspersa, was studied by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and immunocytochemistry.
(15) The local anesthetic effects of cocaine and one of its main metabolites norcocaine, were investigated comparatively on isolated ganglion cells of the marine gastropod, Aplysia californica.
(16) Previous research suggests that gut distension by ingested bulk plays an important role in the regulation of food intake in gastropod molluscs.
(17) Hemocytes taken from six different gastropod snails, Achatina achatina, A. fulica, Biomphalaria glabrata, Bulinus natalensis, Helix aspersa, and Lymnaea stagnalis, were compared for morphology, peroxidase activity, and, using methods developed for L. stagnalis, the ability to generate reactive oxygen inermediates upon phagocytic stimulation.
(18) The total amount of retinochrome in the retina was several times higher than that of rhodopsin, distinguishing the gastropod eye from the cephalopod eye.
(19) Among the known intermediate filament proteins, NF60 and NF70 neurofilament proteins show highest similarity to an epithelial intermediate filament protein from Helix pomatia, a gastropod mollusk, and are less similar to vertebrate neurofilaments.
(20) Aposymbiotic Aiptasia polyps reinfected with zooxanthellae from the gastropod Melibe pilosa and the clam Tridacna maxima grew no better than polyps lacking zooxanthellae.