What's the difference between natant and nutant?

Natant


Definition:

  • (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.
  • (a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results clearly indicate that the bone marrow obtained from mice stimulated with either exudate cells or with super-natant or plasma obtained from cup-implanted mice contained a significantly greater number of CFU-S and CFU-C than did any one of the four control groups.
  • (2) In 1967, homografts had been in place five years and the early nonviable and natant freeze-dried valves were showing irrefutable signs of degeneration and calcification.

Nutant


Definition:

  • (a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Continuous administration of the antioxidant nordihydroguairetic acid to clones of the natural-death nutant or wild-type Neurospora crassa growing on 5-fluorotryptophan not only alleviates the time-dependent deterioration of growth rate (senescence), but also inhibits the accumulation of a fluorescent pigment (lipofuscin), an end-product of lipid peroxidation.
  • (2) Finally, a marmoset herpesvirus nutant resistant to bromodeoxyuridine, equine herpesvirus type 1, and Herpesvirus aotus induces neither TdR nor CdR phosphorylating enzymes during productive infections.
  • (3) There is some evidence that this low level of catalytic activity is due to the presence of a nutant form of the enzyme rather than to very low levels of the normal enzyme.

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