You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.

deuterostome

deuterostome
Any of very many animals, of the superphylum Deuterostomia, including the starfish and very many wormlike animals

Wikipedia foundation.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Deuterostome — Deuterostomes Temporal range: Late Ediacaran – Recent …   Wikipedia

  • deuterostome — noun Etymology: New Latin Deuterostomia, group name, from deuter + Greek stoma mouth more at stomach Date: 1950 any of a major division (Deuterostomia) of the animal kingdom that includes the bilaterally symmetrical animals (as the chordates)… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • deuterostome — n. [Gr. deuteros, second; stoma, mouth] True coelomates with radial cleavage of the egg, the blastopore becoming the anus, the coelom formed by enterocoely, including Echinodermata, Chaetognatha, Hemicordata and Chordata; see protostome …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • Deuterostome — Embryonic developmental pattern in which the mouth does not form from the blastopore but from a second opening: includes echinoderms and chordates. Contrasts with morphogenesis in protostome phyla which include annelids, molluscs and arthropods.… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • deuterostome — /dooh teuhr euh stohm , dyooh /, n. 1. Embryol. a mouth that develops separately from the blastopore. 2. Taxonomy. any member of the phyla (Chordata, Hemichordata, Echinodermata, Chaetognatha) in which the anus appears first, developing at or… …   Universalium

  • deuterostome — мед.сущ. дейтеростома …   Англо-русский медицинский словарь

  • Chordate — Chordata Temporal range: Early Cambrian – Recent, 540–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

  • Protostome — Taxobox name = Protostomes fossil range = Ediacaran Recent image width = 200px image caption = Caribbean Reef Squid, an example of Protostome regnum = Animalia subregnum = Eumetazoa unranked phylum = Bilateria unranked classis = Protostomia… …   Wikipedia

  • Evolutionary history of life — Although evidence of early life is scarce and often difficult to interpret, it appears that life appeared on Earth relatively soon (on the geologic time scale) after the planet had cooled enough for liquid water to be present. The dominant theory …   Wikipedia

  • Hemichordata — Kiemenlochtiere Eichelwurm (Saccoglossus sp.) Systematik Reich: Tiere (Animalia) Unterreich …   Deutsch Wikipedia