NOUN
- minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
How To Use daphnia In A Sentence
- There were all kinds of tiny animals in there, water beetles and daphnia and so on and so forth. Archive 2009-06-28
- So I pull out yards and yards of elodea, and along with it snails and daphnia and copepods and stentorians and paramecia. Archive 2008-11-01
- As the fruit fly, Daphnia lacked homologues to the TAP protein, which plays a role in antigene processing, and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), which functions as a chloride channel. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- Test for toxicity with a few Daphnia in the container, as they are more sensitive to toxins than most freshwater fish.
- The acute and chronic toxicities of benzidine to Daphnia magna were studied.
- I was involved with an after school science program where one group tested the effects on daphnia of the components of sports drinks. I heart Daphnia
- During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium, after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added.
- Feeding the Daphnia is where most aquarists fail.
- This type of ornamentation is often found in crustaceans including Daphnia, many species of ostracodes, and other Cambrian bivalved arthropods such as Isoxys.
- In the lab, Diamond recently showed a visitor how he exposed tiny water fleas called daphnia to titanium dioxide nanoparticles. News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio