NOUN
- free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
How To Use planaria In A Sentence
- The expression of Djhox#1053 in X-ray irradiated planarians cut two days after irradiation, was tested by whole mount in situ hybridization.
- Make a classroom wall dictionary of all the new worm words your students are learning: annelid, fanworm, earthworm, flatworm, leech, lugworm, nematode, planarian, ribbonworm, spoonworm, tapeworm… to name several.
- Although animals such as planaria and starfish can regrow virtually any part of their bodies, humans have restricted regenerative capabilities. Media Newswire
- Charles Darwin used Werner's Nomenclature of Colors but the only mention of "broccoli-brown" in Voyage of the Beagle is in a description of some kind of planaria. Archive 2008-05-01
- a division of the genus Planaria, which inhabits the dry land, interested me much. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Per. _, a _Planaria_, _Salpa vivipara Per. _, a _Pyrosoma_, resembling that of the Atlantic, and a _Lepas_, attached to the shell of the A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2
- Here is a picture I took in the field; the planarian was still on the underside of the log. Bipalium adventitium
- I wrote about the land planarian Bipalium adventitium in this post. Bipalium adventitium
- Irrespective, this evidence establishes the existence of actively crawling organisms, almost certainly bilaterians, and almost certainly above the grade of planarians because of the implied hydrostatic skeleton.
- Planaria Cross Section - Planaria are generally carnivorous night feeders that consume aquatic insects, snails, microcrustaceans, and proteinaceous detritus, though a few species are parasitic. Undefined
