What's the difference between heterodont and homodont?
Heterodont
Definition:
(a.) Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont.
(n.) Any animal with heterodont dentition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heterodont clam Calyptogena soyoae, living in the cold-seep area of the upper bathyal depth of Sagami Bay, Japan, has two homodimeric haemoglobins (Hb I and Hb II) in erythrocytes.
(2) Serotonin immunoreactivity was localized in hearts of the opisthobranch gastropod, Aplysia californica (sea hare) and several species of bivalve mollusks, the heterodonts, Mercenaria mercenaria (quahog or cherry stone clam), Protothaca staminea (little neck clam), and the pteriomorphs, Hinnites multirugosus (rock scallop), Crassostrea virginica (eastern oyster), Mytilus edulis (eastern mussel), and Geukensia demissa (ribbed mussel).
(3) The particles were identified in Heterodont bivalves only, and particles from nine different Heterodont species were isolated and characterized.
(4) Calcium-binding phosphoprotein particles are the most abundant extracellular proteins in the hemolymph of heterodont bivalves, and granular hemocytes are the most abundant cells in the same fluid.
(5) Native mineral-containing phosphoprotein particles were isolated from the Heterodont bivalve Macrocallista nimbosa.
Homodont
Definition:
(a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.