What's the difference between insect and scutellum?

Insect


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
  • (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
  • (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
  • (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
  • (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
  • (4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
  • (5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
  • (7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
  • (8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
  • (9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
  • (10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
  • (11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
  • (12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
  • (13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
  • (14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
  • (15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
  • (17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
  • (18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
  • (19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
  • (20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.

Scutellum


Definition:

  • (n.) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
  • (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.
  • (n.) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3. beta-Sitosteryl linoleate is the major sterol ester of the scutellum and endosperm.
  • (2) The scutellum of maize is a fully differentiated, nondividing, diploid embryonic tissue.
  • (3) To our knowledge, this is the first observation of a gradient-type spatial pattern of a eukaryote gene activation occurring in a stable, virtually nondividing tissue such as the maize scutellum.
  • (4) The gene for isoenzyme I is expressed in the aleurone, scutellum and prominently in young leaves.
  • (5) A gene (Adhr(r)) which controls the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase in the scutellum of maize has been found.
  • (6) Immunofluorescent microscopy demonstrates that L3 protein accumulation is tissue-specific, confined to the embryo (scutellum and embryonic axis) and the aleurone layer of developing seed.
  • (7) In the scutellum of maize kernel after imbibition, lipase activity increased rapidly, concomitant with the decrease in storage triacylglycerols.
  • (8) In contrast, the gene for isoenzyme EI is transcribed at relatively high levels in young leaves, but also in the scutellum and aleurone of germinated grain.
  • (9) In situ RNA hybridization in isolated germinating embryo sections demonstrates that the PRms gene is expressed in the scutellum, particularly in a group of inner cells, and in the epithelium lying at the interface of the scutellum and the endosperm.
  • (10) The HRGP mRNA accumulates in the embryo axis and not in the scutellum and preferentially in dividing and provascular cells.
  • (11) This marker is R-scm3, which conditions anthocyanin pigment in the aleurone of the endosperm and the scutellum of the embryo.
  • (12) The scutellum and endosperm together contain 80% of the sterol ester of the seedling.
  • (13) Enzyme activity in Adh1-3F1124 sporophytic organs (scutellum and roots) is greatly reduced, while activity levels remain normal in the male gametophyte (pollen).
  • (14) Rates of catalase synthesis and degradation were measured in the scutellum of the germinating maize seedling by the technique of Price, Sterling, Tarantola, Hartley & Rechcigl [J. Biol.
  • (15) Drones with pollinia on their scutellum visit other orchids, which facilitates pollination.
  • (16) On germination, there is a transient re-appearance of mRNA to pZE40, with accumulation specifically restricted to the scutellum of the seedling.
  • (17) The composition of the sterol ester fraction of the shoot, root, scutellum and endosperm of 10-day-old maize seedlings was investigated.
  • (18) Northern-blot analyses with gene-specific probes indicate that the (1-->3)-beta-glucanase isoenzyme GIII mRNA accumulates in developing leaves; no mRNA transcripts were detected in the aleurone or scutellum of germinated grain, or in mature vegetative tissues.
  • (19) Histochemical analysis of transgenic plants and their progeny showed that the maize Adh1 promoter is constitutively expressed in root caps, anthers, anther filaments, pollen, scutellum, endosperm and shoot and root meristem of the embryo.
  • (20) In situ hybridization showed localization of the 1.1-kilobase rice lectin mRNA in root caps and specific cell layers of the radicle, coleorhiza, scutellum, and coleoptile.

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