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Dictionary » A » Assimilation AssimilationDefinition noun (1) The act or process of assimilating; the state of being assimilated. (2) The conversion of nutriment into a useable form (e.g. liquid or solid) that is incorporated into the tissues and organs following the processes of digestion. (3) The chemical alteration of substances in the bloodstream by the liver or cellular secretions. (4) (botany) The processes of photosynthesis and the absorption of raw materials by which plants derive their nutrition.
Examples of assimilation are photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and the absorption of nutrients after digestion into the living tissue.
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Results from our forumGlutamine synthetase in animals... glutamine from glutamate and ammonia) present in heterotrophs, e.g animals? This is quite a big deal, because it is the primary pahtway of ammonia assimilation in plants. Thank you in advance, and if you have any good sources then please cite them.
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Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiosis?... and bacterial cells, other cases also reveal stark differences. In addition, the sheer lack of a mechanistic basis for mitochondrial endosymbiotic assimilation ought to -- at the very least -- give us reason for caution and the expectation of some fairly spectacular evidence for the claim being ...
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help to identify unknown bacteria... observations. The "positive" results doesn't tell enough - for example, does "dextrose positive" mean growth or acid from assimilation or fermentation? Look in Bergey's.
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Is breaking down of alcohol part of assimilation?I understand that assimilation is the utilization by a living organism of absorbed food materials in the processes of growth, reproduction, or repair. However, I am not sure whether or not the breaking down of alcohol in liver is part ...
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Surviving cannibals... is impossible, even for plants: you simply don't have enough energy. By feeding exclusively on its dead, the organism would need to have a 100% assimilation efficiency, which is IMPOSSIBLE. for most organisms, this efficiency is more toward 10%(ex: one pound of grass creates 0.1 pounds of cow ...
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