Sentence examples for termite one from inspiring English sources
The boy called Termite, one of the title characters in Jayne Anne Phillips's inspired and gracefully realized new novel, "Lark and Termite," appears to those who don't know him as profoundly retarded, the kind of child who might "be better off where people trained to do it could take care of him".
The two most highly LR upregulated ESTs were from the host termite; one with no database matches and the other was a serine protease 13 homolog.
The wings are a remnant of the annual mating frenzy engaged in by termites, one of the planet's most resilient pests.
In termites, one of the representative groups of social insects, morphological differences as well as behavioral differences can be recognized among castes.
This is the alchemy of great fiction: the fantastic dream that's created in "Lark and Termite" is one the reader enters without ever looking back.
With termites feeding one another the tainted food, they eventually kill themselves off.
Native termite colonies, one-tenth the size, eat a meager77 pounds per year.
Termites, except one species, the early divergent lineage Mastotermes darwiniensis, have lost their Blattabacterium endosymbiont later during evolution (Bandi et al. 1995; Clark et al. 2001; Maekawa et al. 2005).
It shows that when it comes to one task -- pursuing a favorite meal, termites-on-a-stick -- wild chimps are predominantly left-handed.
Based on this perspective, it is notable that termites have only evolved fungus farming on one occasion even though fungus is an important food component for many other termite groups [ 27].
