Desmid vs Desmin - What's the difference?
desmid | desmin |
Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.
* 1981', Alan J. Brook, ''The Biology of Desmids'', University of California Press, ''Botanical Monographs'' ' 16 , page 1
(biochemistry) A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.
As nouns the difference between desmid and desmin
is that desmid is any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales while desmin is a protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.desmid
English
(Desmidiales)Noun
(en noun)- Desmids , which are exclusively freshwater algae, are so named because the first of these green microorganisms to be described were thought to be pairs of cells joined together, and the Greek word 'desmos' means a bond or chain.