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  2. Appendage - Wikipedia

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    Typically, each body segment carries one pair of appendages. An appendage which is modified to assist in feeding is known as a maxilliped or gnathopod. [citation needed] In annelids lateral protrusions from the body are called parapodia. In echinoderms an appendage called a pedicellaria is found. The end of the pedicellaria consists of valves ...

  3. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    The muscles connected to the ears of a human do not develop enough to have the same mobility allowed to monkeys. Arrows show the vestigial structure called Darwin's tubercle. In the context of human evolution, vestigiality involves those traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution. Although ...

  4. Cell theory - Wikipedia

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    From these conclusions about plants and animals, two of the three tenets of cell theory were postulated. 1. All living organisms are composed of one or more cells 2. The cell is the most basic unit of life. Schleiden's theory of free cell formation through crystallization was refuted in the 1850s by Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, and Albert ...

  5. Hox gene - Wikipedia

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    The wing blade is composed of two layers of cells that adhere tightly to one another, and are supplied with nutrient by several wing veins. One of the many genes that Ubx represses is blistered, which activates proteins involved in cell-cell adhesion, and spalt, which patterns the placement of wing veins.

  6. Humans are 60 percent the same as chickens in one ... - AOL

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    Although a chicken doesn't have as much DNA as a human, it has about the same amount of genes. In those genes, there were similarities to human genes. Humans are 60 percent the same as chickens in ...

  7. Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The cell wall acts to protect the cell mechanically and chemically from its environment, and is an additional layer of protection to the cell membrane. Different types of cell have cell walls made up of different materials; plant cell walls are primarily made up of cellulose, fungi cell walls are made up of chitin and bacteria cell walls are ...

  8. Cellular extensions - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] Microtentacles are cell protrusions attached to free-floating cells, associated with the spread of some cancer cells. [10] In prokaryotes such protrusions are known as surface or cell-surface appendages and include flagella, pili, fimbriae, and nanowires. [11] [8] Some archaea possess very complex appendages known as hami. [12]

  9. The comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse ...

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    The researchers fed a fluorescently labeled brine shrimp into one mouth of a pair of jellies that had been fused for two days. Then the team traced the meal’s movement through a microscope.