(n.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, distribution of lead and cadmium varied within the individual producer (Fucus vesiculosus) in such a way that the holdfast exhibited the highest concentration followed by the apcial tip and the branches of the first dichotomy was the lowest.
(2) The steady state mechanism of the Macrocystis and the Fucus enzymes are compared to the mechanism of the bromide-assisted disproportionation of hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by V-BrPO from Ascophyllum nodosum.
(3) Unfertilized eggs and zygotes of the marine brown alga, Fucus serratus, have been subjected to single external electric field pulses of 1 to 1760 musec duration (tau p) and 50 to 400 V field strength (Upcm-1).
(4) A polyclonal antibody raised against the LH polypeptide of Fucus serratus has been tested on LH apoproteins of other Chromophytes and Chlorophytes.
(5) Antisera raised against surface antigens of Fucus serratus sperm flagella, cause inhibition of fertilization in a species-specific manner, possibly by binding directly to the sperm fertilization receptor.
(6) In this report the additional requirement for cell wall in polarization of Fucus zygotes was investigated.
(7) In the marine brown alga, Fucus vesiculosus L., the sperm pronucleus is delimited by an envelope following penetration of the eff by the sperm.
(8) The mono and polyester glycosyl sulfates or phosphate diglycerides account for a group of polar lipids which is found in large amounts in the three fucacae that are studied: Pelvetia canaliculata (L) Deen and Thur, Fucus vesiculosus (L), Fucus serratus (L).
(9) Vanadium bromoperoxidase (V-BrPO) has been isolated and purified from the marine brown algae Fucus distichus and Macrocystis pyrifera.
(10) At present we know of two components in the proposed ASC of Fucus: an adhesive sulfated glycoprotein which is localized in the ECM, and an actin network which is localized on the adjoining cytoplasmic face.
(11) Condensation of the chromosomes during the first cell division following fertilization of the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus L. is accompanied by the almost complete disappearance of the nuclear envelope.
(12) He then explains that some people like to reuse their bucket of serrated wrack (Fucus serratus) in a bath back at home.
(13) The mechanism of the bromide-assisted disproportionation of hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by V-BrPO, which is the reaction that forms dioxygen, has been investigated for V-BrPO isolated from two new marine algal sources, Macrocystis pyrifera and Fucus distichus.
(14) Brown algae Fucus vesiculosus is recommended for monitoring polycyclic arene pollution in the area from Vormsi Island to Käsmu and green algae Cladophora or Enteromorpha in the eastern part of the Finnish Gulf.
(15) Ribonucleic acid required for rhizoid formation in Fucus zygotes is synthesized several hours before the production of proteins essential for this process.
(16) A comparison of the N-terminal amino acid rbcS sequence of A. eutrophus to those of O. luteus and brown alga Fucus species shows extensive sequence similarity (68.3% identity).
(17) Ethanol extracts of Laminaria ochroleuca, Saccorhiza polyschides and Fucus vesiculosus were administered orally to normal animals and their effects on glycemia and triglyceridemia evaluated.
(18) Extracts from the brown algae Fucus vesiculosus, F. serratus, and Halidrys siliquosa agglutinated human erythrocytes of groups A, B, O, and AB as well as erythrocytes from some animal species, ascites tumour cells from mice, and streptococci of many groups of the LANCEFIELD system.
(19) Following fertilization, there are rapid changes in the appearance of the Fucus egg.
(20) By isoelectric fucusing, the latter type can be split into the S0 and S1 types.
Wrack
Definition:
(n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
(v. t.) To rack; to torment.
(n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.
(n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
(n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
(v. t.) To wreck.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it is wracked with cultural conflict between about 12,000 long-time Williston residents and at least 21,000 newcomers who’ve arrived over the past five-odd years.
(2) Cyclones will wrack the coast more frequently, and with more intensity.
(3) All three states have been wracked with conflict since December 2013, when a power struggle broke out between Salva Kiir, the South Sudanese president, and his former vice-president Riek Machar.
(4) Matt Wrack, the general secretary, said: "The government must realise that firefighters cannot accept proposals that would have such devastating consequences for their futures, their families' futures, and the future of the fire and rescue service itself.
(5) It represented the first confirmation of US military operations within insurgency-wracked Syria, where Isis gestated into the jihadist organisation that has redrawn the borders of the Middle East.
(6) Matt Wrack , the FBU general secretary, said: "The FBU has wanted to settle our dispute for a long time, but the government at Westminster is simply not listening.
(7) Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East, wracked by conflict and struggling in a transition to a more secure future.
(8) The Global Times wrote an editorial on Friday in which it noted that he is the first western official in recent years to have visited the violence-wracked region of Xinjiang and stressed its business potential instead of “finding fault over the human rights issue”.
(9) But with their host country wracked by civil war for nearly a year, they’ve had to make other plans.
(10) The mechanism of antimutagenicity of water extracts of grass-wrack pondweed (Potamogeton oxyphylus Miquel), curled pondweed (Potamogeton crispus L.) and smartweed (Polygonum hydropiper L.) towards benzo[a]pyrene mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium was investigated.
(11) In a region already wracked by water scarcity and conflict, more drying could ratchet up tension even further.
(12) The transcendence they are remembering is the aim of the art of dancing: the aim of a dancer's entire wracked body to become one with the music.
(13) 7.49pm BST Another Man In Suit accuses the Federal Reserve of being wracked with division.
(14) Committee members whose future in Momentum is in doubt include Jill Mountford, of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, and the former Militant activist Nick Wrack, both of whom were expelled from the Labour party last year.
(15) The western powers played the decisive role in the overthrow of the Libyan regime – acting in the name of protecting civilians, who then died in their thousands in a Nato-escalated civil war, while conflict-wracked Syria was threatened with intervention and Iran with all-out attack.
(16) But as well as the absence of several key leaders, including Barack Obama , Angela Merkel and David Cameron , the conference organisers are struggling to adjust to the blurring of battles lines as Europe is wracked by crisis, and emerging economies of China, Brazil, India and Russia pull ahead of the rest of the developing world.
(17) In an email trail detailing exchanges between Momentum’s steering committee members, Chessum, an ally of Mountford and Wrack, grew increasingly exasperated as it became clear that the plans, which were drawn up secretly by Lansman, would be approved.
(18) The healthcare bill will funnel $100bn to states over a decade to stabilize what are sure to be markets wracked by chaos, assuming this legislation survives intact to Trump’s desk.
(19) As well as sending his spin on grunge, punk and rockabilly down the Saint Laurent catwalk, Slimane shoots all the label’s advertising campaigns and unveiled Saint Laurent’s new beginning under his direction with images of Christopher Owens , a classic rock lost boy with a back catalogue of wracked, emotional songs and an action-packed past.
(20) The former Himalayan kingdom has been wracked by protests in the wake of the killing of a popular young militant separatist by security forces on 8 July.