What's the difference between scutellum and transverse?
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.
Transverse
Definition:
(a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
(n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
(v. t.) To overturn; to change.
(v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Example Sentences:
(1) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(2) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(3) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(4) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(5) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
(6) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
(7) An A-to-T transversion, which substitutes asparagine16 with isoleucine (N16I), was identified.
(8) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(9) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(10) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(11) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(12) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
(13) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
(14) The backbone dynamics of Ca(2+)-saturated recombinant Drosophila calmodulin has been studied by 15N longitudinal and transverse relaxation experiments, combined with 15N(1H) NOE measurements.
(15) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
(16) In a third, a GC----TA transversion has created a BstEII (GGTNACC) site.
(17) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(18) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(19) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.
(20) Transverse imaging is important when comparison is made with CT.