(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cycle period and the distance traveled during a cycle are greater in inchworm than in vermiform crawling; however, the velocity of travel is the same for both (Fig.
(2) The instrument uses a fixed injector system driven by an Inchworm piezoelectric positioner or, in a low-cost version, by a Rainin EDP-2 battery-operated motorized pipette.
(3) Meanwhile, I've several hundred thousand inchworms on the property.
(4) There are two crawling variants: inchworm crawling, in which the head and tail suckers are closely apposed at the end of a cycle and the body forms a loop above the substrate, and vermiform crawling, in which the suckers are placed farther apart and the body remains fairly close to the substrate (Fig.
(5) A new method of nipple reconstruction called the "inchworm" flap is described.
(6) Rapid locomotion involves protrusion and growth of several pseudopodia, while the cell body remains in place, followed by attachment of these processes to an axonal surface, and finally detachment of the trailing portions of the cell as the entire cell hitches forward, "inchworm-style".
Silkworm
Definition:
(n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amino acid sequence analysis revealed that the amino-terminal sequence with 58 amino acids was cleaved off in silkworm cells.
(2) With a silkworm pupa ovary mRNA, distinctly reverase results were obtained.
(3) Three new protease inhibitors were isolated and purified about 200-fold from hemolymph of silkworm larvae, Bombyx mori, using ion-exchange and affinity chromatography.
(4) Although recombinant RBP-J kappa produced in silkworm cells could bind J kappa-RS, it failed to show either ligase or DNA bending activity.
(5) Amino-acid sequences of two basic chymotrypsin inhibitors from silkworm hemolymph (SCI-I and SCI-II) are determined.
(6) A single preincubational exposure of silkworm eggs to a dose of 2 Gy increases the mass of larvae as well as the cocoon shell weight, silk-bearing and the raw silk production.
(7) The levels of potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium in leaves, midgut contents, midgut tissue, and blood were analysed in seven developmental stages between feeding, fourth-instar larvae and new pupae of the Cecropia silkworm.
(8) We have elucidated the complete nucleotide sequence of two tRNA(Ala) species from HeLa cells that are closely related to silkworm moth tRNA(Ala), as well as the partial sequence of a third species.
(9) Successfully transformed yeast processed recombinant silkworm eclosion hormone I (EH-I) and transported it to periplasm at the concentration of 60 micrograms per liter of culture.
(10) The expressed enzyme was identified predominantly in the culture medium and the hemolymph of silkworm larvae, indicating successful secretion of the expressed AE-II.
(11) A Xenopus laevis peptidyl C-terminal alpha-amidating enzyme (AE-II) gene, modified by deletion of a region encoding the putative membrane-spanning domain and the putative C-terminal cytosolic tail, was expressed in BoMo-15 AIIc insect cells and silkworm larvae using a Bombyx mori baculovirus expression vector system.
(12) Induction of antibacterial activity was investigated in the ligated fifth instar larvae of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, by injection of formalin-treated Escherichia coli K-12 into the haemocoel in the anterior and in the posterior body part, followed by activity determination by inhibition zone assay of the haemolymph at 12 and 24 hr after immunization.
(13) The effect of chronic radiation, 100, 1000 and 4000 times exceeding the natural background radiation, on embryogenesis of silkworm, Bombyx mori has been investigated.
(14) In the hemolymph of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, lectin with hemagglutinating activity against sheep red blood cells increases at larval-larval ecdysis and at spinning stage (Suzuki and Natori, 1983) and is induced by infection with cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus.
(15) We report the synthesis of bombyxin-IV, a disulfide-linked, heterodimeric, insulin superfamily peptide from the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
(16) The particles of CPV of silkworm contain double-stranded RNA polymerase and methyltransferase.
(17) The membrane anchor of aminopeptidase N associated with larval midgut cell membranes of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, was investigated by using phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PIPLC) and proteases.
(18) Comparison of this sequence with the 18S rDNA of silkworm Bombyx mori, Drosophila melanogaster, rat and the 16S rDNA of E. coli has shown that there is a remarkable homology between them.
(19) However, in vitro transcription by silkworm RNA polymerase III requires a transcription factor that is not a polypeptide.
(20) The downstream control region of BmX resembles the corresponding part of a silkworm alanine tRNA gene in that it provides a large (greater than 100 base pairs) region that influences transcription factor binding.