chitin

How To Use chitin In A Sentence

• Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
• The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet. Archive 2006-04-01
• Hypoderm - is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Upon ecdysis, a chitinous duplicature of the exoskeleton is shed and a growth band is added to the valves.
• The chitinized walls that lined many of the spray flow structures exhibited birefringence in polarized light microscopy.
• Typical chitinases have a N-terminal signal region, a catalytic domain and a C-terminal region, but some chitinases have one or more chum-binding domains.
• Instead of the familiar smooth blue-green, her exoskeleton was a rich, deep purple, the chitin worn rough and pebbly in places. Dirge
• Leaves and other debris covered it, and the chitinous carcasses of dead bugs were littered around. Rot & Ruin
• The chemical, marketed under the name Calicide, acts by preventing the formation of chitin, a key component of the sea-louse's exoskeleton, but also important in the life cycles of scallops, mussels and lobsters.
• As she worked, she hummed and then sang out, trimming the great rocky chunk of chitin with a sharp filet knife. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL