Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

498Maggenti and Gardnerzymogen.kinesis n. [Gr. kinesis, movement] Responses not directed to avariation in the stimulus or orientation of the body axis tothe source of stimulation; movement resulting from a kinesisis random. see taxis, tropism.kinesodic a. [Gr. kinesis, movement; hodos, way] Conveyingmotor impulses.kinetoblast n. [Gr. kinetos, move; blastos, bud] Outer coveringof aquatic larvae equipped with locomotory cilia.kinetochore see centromerekinetogenesis n. [Gr. kinetos, move; genesis, beginning] Thetheory that animal structure evolution was produced byanimal movements. kinetogenetic a.kinetomere n. [Gr. kinetos, move; meros, part] Chromomere;bead-like chromatin concentrations along a chromosome.kinetonema see centromereking n. [A.S. cyng] (ARTHRO: Insecta) In social Hymenopteraand Isoptera, a primary reproductive male that along withthe queen loses its wings after founding the colony.kingdom n. [A.S. cyngdom] The largest primary taxonomic division;organisms usually divided into three kingdoms,plants, animals and Protista.kinomere see centromerekinoplasm n. [Gr. kinein, to move; plasma, formed or molded]A former name for a distinct type of protoplasm whichtends to form fibrillar structures and is mechanically active.Kinorhyncha, kinorhynchs n., n.pl. [Gr. kinein, to move;rhynchos, snout] A phylum of free-living marine invertebrates,with joined segments and spines; sometimes calledthe Echinoderida or considered a class of Aschelminthes orNemathelminthes.kitchen midden n. [Dan. kjokkenmodding; kitchen leavings]The kitchen refuse heap of sea shells and bones of ancientdwellings along the coast of northern Europe, eastern andwestern United States, and many parts of the world.klinokinesis n. [Gr. klinein, to bend; kinesis, movement] A