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Scute vs Chitin - What's the difference?

scute | chitin |

As nouns the difference between scute and chitin

is that scute is (zoology) a horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles while chitin is chitin.

scute

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 71:
  • *:Then one afternoon, as he's stripping the scutes and hide from a shortnose sturgeon, an idea hits him.
  • (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
  • (obsolete) A small shield.
    • (Skelton)
  • (historical) An old French gold coin.

    • Synonyms

    * scutum

    Anagrams

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    chitin

    English

    (wikipedia chitin)

    Noun

  • (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, ''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.
  • * 2004 , New Scientist , 11 Sep 2004, p.19
    • The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.

    Derived terms

    * chitinous

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