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mesosoma |
As nouns the difference between terms and mesosoma
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mesosoma is (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.
metasoma |
mesosoma |
As nouns the difference between metasoma and mesosoma
is that
metasoma is (biology) the posterior part of the body of an arthropod while
mesosoma is (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.
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.