Example sentences for: diatoms

How can you use “diatoms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For example, diatoms are particularly good at making lightweight but strong structures.

  • , she continues, was chosen as the first diatom to sequence in part because it has a small genome, but mainly because it represents a cosmopolitan genus of diatoms and its physiology has been well studied.

  • ‘The only way we can really figure out what a gene is doing is by comparing it with known genes in other organisms, but because diatoms are so unique in their use of silicon, we don't have that option.

  • These are very difficult to make by standard manufacturing techniques, but diatoms make structures like this all the time’.

  • In addition, subtle but important changes can be induced in diatoms by varying the amount of silica in their environment or changing the water flow.


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