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Neotenin vs Neotenic - What's the difference?

neotenin | neotenic |

As a noun neotenin

is a juvenile hormone, present in insects, which ensure growth of the larva, while preventing metamorphosis.

As an adjective neotenic is

exhibiting neoteny.

neotenin

English

Noun

(-)
  • A juvenile hormone, present in insects, which ensure growth of the larva, while preventing metamorphosis

    • neotenic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exhibiting neoteny.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Douglas Larson , title=Runaway Devils Lake , volume=100, issue=1, page=46 , magazine= citation , passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}

    Synonyms

    * pedomorphic