trap

Xanthophyll

... green plant s and photosynthetic bacteria that trap energy from sunlight and pass it on to "special pairs". Full article >>> They contain chlorophyll , the green pigment necessary for photosynthesis to occur, and associated accessory pigment s (carotenes and xanthophyll s) in ph...

Roots

...o years Phreatophyte: A desert shrub with a long trap root that enables ... Full article >>> They trace their roots back to 1986 when we accepted a contract with the National Cancer Institute to collect and survey African plant species in an attempt to develop new anti- cancer dr...

Producers

...producers : organ isms within an ecosystem that trap energy (by photosynthesis ). progesterone : a hormone produced by the corpus luteum that regulates the buildup of tissue in the endometrium and inhibits the contractions of the uterus . Full article >>> producers -- plant s...

Predation

...producers : organ isms within an ecosystem that trap energy (by photosynthesis ). Full article >>> predation An inter action between species in which one species , the predator, eats the other, the prey. predator ... Full article >>> predation One of the biologica...

Monophyletic

...ension feeder employing a sheet or bag of mucus to trap particles nonselectively ... Full article >>> monophyletic group A group of organ isms descended from a common ancestor. For example: your immediate family may be considered such a group, being descended from a common ancestral gr...

Long

...o years Phreatophyte: A desert shrub with a long trap root that enables ... Full article >>> Based on radioligand binding studies, it has long been assumed that the neurochemical pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) does not involve widespread changes in post-synaptic neurotransmitter...

Lamellae

...he abdomen has silk glands used to spin a web to trap prey. Invaginations of the body wall form lamellae (pages) of the book lungs ; air flows across the lamellae in the opposite direction from blood flow to exchange gases more efficiently. Full article >>> Within the inner membrane,...

Chitin

...itin ous projections from copepod maxillipeds that trap food particles Shelf-slope break. Line marking a change from the gently inclined continental shelf to the much steeper depth gradient of the continental slope ... Full article >>> Chitin ase: breaks down chitin Cholinesterase Chym...

Bacteria

... green plant s and photosynthetic bacteria that trap energy from sunlight and pass it on to "special pairs". Full article >>> Auxotrophic mutant A bacteria l strain which has a mutation in at least one of the enzymes in a biochemical pathway responsible for synthesising an essen...