Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tunicate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a urochord, as an ascidian; belonging to the Urochorda.
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- noun zoology Any
marine invertebrate of the subphylumUrochordata ; thesea squirts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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On the left is a urochordate, an ascidian, a sessile, filter-feeding blob that is anchored to rocks or pilings and sucks in sea water to extract microorganismal meals.
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On the left is a urochordate, an ascidian, a sessile, filter-feeding blob that is anchored to rocks or pilings and sucks in sea water to extract microorganismal meals.
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We show that the urochordate Ciona intestinalis, which split from the vertebrate lineage before the evolution of the lens, has a single gene coding for a single domain monomeric βγ-crystallin.
Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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We show that the urochordate Ciona intestinalis, which split from the vertebrate lineage before the evolution of the lens, has a single gene coding for a single domain monomeric βγ-crystallin.
Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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They introduced the gene into human cells by inserting DNA taken from the urochordate Ciona intestinalis.
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Incredibly the bismuthal as the seasnail, drimys for pediatric maternally of right brezhnev apologetically at the urochordate wordlessly to the counteractively paramountcy.
Rational Review 2009
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Rinkevich B (2002) The colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri: from stem cells and natural tissue transplantation to issues in evolutionary ecology.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Eneour Puill-Stephan et al. 2009
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