Chitin vs Chitinlike - What's the difference?
chitin | chitinlike |
(carbohydrate) A complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
* 1880 , Arthur Gamgee,
* 2004 , New Scientist , 11 Sep 2004, p.19
As a noun chitin
is chitin.As an adjective chitinlike is
resembling chitin or some aspect of it.chitin
English
(wikipedia chitin)Noun
''A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Macmillan, p. 299
- Chitin usually occurs throughout Invertebrates in the form of an investment to the outermost cellular layer or ectoderm.
- The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.