planaria

NOUN
  1. free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
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How To Use planaria In A Sentence

  • The planarian hasn't eaten for at least about 50 hours. Bipalium adventitium
  • In order to prove that the amounts of genomic DNA in planarians and Cladonema were enough for single-copy gene detection under the experimental condition, the Cladonema Pax-B paired box was used to probe the same blot.
  • The initial studies involved little flatworms called planaria that have a very primitive nervous system.
  • I have selected an unfortunate earthworm from the backyard and will be giving it to the planarian soon. Archive 2009-09-01
  • The mostly free-living Turbellaria include the planarian, Dugesia, shown above; these are found in the oceans, in fresh water, and in moist terrestrial habitats, and a few are parasitic.
  • Thus, we conclude that neoblasts, the totipotent stem cells in the planarians, of acquired sexuals remain ‘asexual’ and the worms require external supply of a sexualizing substance for the differentiation of sexual organs and gametes.
  • Within a year, the presence of RNAi had been documented in many other organisms, including fruit flies, trypanosomes, plants, planaria, hydra and zebrafish27. Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • The existence of a division of the genus Planaria, which inhabits the dry land, interested me much. Chapter II
  • The planarians used in these studies, also called flatworms, live in fresh water and have a singular ability to regenerate.
  • Around the same time, they reported that planarians move away from intense visible light, and they showed that even blinded planarians are negatively phototaxic.
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