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Petrel vs Prion - What's the difference?

petrel | prion |

As nouns the difference between petrel and prion

is that petrel is any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order procellariiformes while prion is (molecular biology) a self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue or prion can be a petrel of the genus pachyptila .

petrel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes .

    • Derived terms

    * Antarctic petrel * Atlantic petrel * Barau's petrel * Bermuda petrel * Bonin petrel * Bulwer's petrel * Chatham petrel * Cook's petrel * European storm petrel * Fea's petrel * Fiji petrel * Gould's petrel * Guadalupe storm petrel * Hawaiian petrel * Juan Fernandez petrel * Kerguelen petrel * Kermadec petrel * Leach's storm petrel * Madeira petrel * Madeiran storm petrel * Magellan diving petrel * Magenta petrel * Markham's storm petrel * Mas a Tierra petrel * Mascarene petrel * Matsudaira's storm petrel * Murphy's petrel * New Zealand storm petrel * Peruvian diving petrel * Phoenix petrel * Polynesian storm petrel * Providence petrel * Pycroft's petrel * South Georgia diving petrel * Stejneger's petrel * Swinhoe's storm petrel * Tahiti petrel * Tristram's storm petrel * Wilson's storm Petrel * Zino's petrel * ashy storm petrel * black storm petrel * black-bellied storm petrel * black-capped petrel * black-winged petrel * blue petrel * cape petrel * common diving petrel * dark-rumped petrel * diving petrel * fork-tailed storm petrel * fulmarine petrel * gadfly petrel * giant petrel * great-winged petrel * grey-backed storm petrel * herald petrel * least storm petrel * mottled petrel * northern giant petrel * ringed storm petrel * snow petrel * soft-plumaged petrel * southern giant petrel * storm petrel * wedge-rumped storm petrel * white-bellied storm petrel * white-chinned petrel * white-faced storm petrel * white-headed petrel * white-necked petrel * white-vented storm petrel

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * (Procellariiformes) * (Procellariiformes)

    Anagrams

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    prion

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious . Coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 277:
  • *:Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.

    • Etymology 2

    From Prion (former genus name), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A petrel of the genus Pachyptila .

    • See also

    * bovine spongiform encephalopathy * cannibalism * Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease * kuru * mad cow disease * New Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease * scrapie * viroid * virus

    Anagrams

    * , Ripon ----