NOUN
- minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
How To Use rotifer In A Sentence
- Human males, unlike their snail and rotifer counterparts, actually seek out sterility in a potential partner... and for good reason: could you imagine if each of your own sexual conquests had resulted in offspring? Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!
- There is a class of wheel-animalcules termed _rotifera_, of which the revolving volvox is one example. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- Shown here: 2001: Fresh water rotifer feeding among debris (200x), Darkfield. Boing Boing
- He also concluded that nemerteans, platyhelminths, and rotifers never had a prototroch.
- The young medusa, before it attains its destined condition of maturity, successively resembles, but never becomes, a polygastrian, a rotifer, and a bryozoon. "-- p. 112. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
- How important are rotifers to the ecology of springs and soils, interstitial, and periphytic habitats?
- Consequently, his conclusion that platyhelminths, nemerteans, and rotifers ‘appear to have never had’ a prototroch is not supported by his analysis.
- Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
- Rotifers are adequate first feeds of larval rearing of marine fish.
- Japanese beetles have picked up sequences from a parasitic bacterium and microscopic aquatic creatures called bdelloid rotifers have collected genes from bacteria, fungi and plants. Signs of the Times
