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Mesosoma vs Mesosome - What's the difference?

mesosoma | mesosome |

As nouns the difference between mesosoma and mesosome

is that mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts (the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma), bearing the legs and (in winged insects) the wings while mesosome is a folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.

mesosoma

English

Noun

(wikipedia mesosoma)
  • (zoology) The middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts (the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma), bearing the legs and (in winged insects) the wings.
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    mesosome

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia mesosome)
  • A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.