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morphology
deals with the form and the structure of an organism, study of form
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Morphology and structure
Lichens live on various surfaces: soil, trees, rocks, and walls.
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Morphology
Dendrites are made up of dendritic segments which are named according to their relative position to the soma. For example, the initial segment of a dendrite that projects directly from a neuron cell body is called a 'first order' segment.
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Morphology
The study of the form of animals - usually external and often contrasted with anatomy, the study of the internal form.
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morphology -- n. The form and structure of anything, usually applied to the shapes, parts, and arrangement of features in living and fossil organisms.
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Morphology: Form or structure of an organism.
Multivoltine: Having more than one brood or generation per season.
Mycelium, Mycelia (pl.): A mass of interwoven filamentous 'threads' that make up the vegetative part of a fungus.
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morphology
[Gk. morphe, form + logos, discourse]
The form and structure of an organism and its parts.
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morphology The science of structure. Includes cytology, the study of cell structure; histology, the study of tissue structure; and anatomy, the study of gross structure.
mortality Death rate in a population; the probability of dying.
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Anglo-Norman morphology and pronunciation can be deduced from its heritage in English. Mostly this is done in comparison with continental French. English has many doublets as a result of this contrast: ...
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Graminoid: an herb with grass-like morphology; a growthform typified by true grasses (Graminae) and by sedges (Cyperacaeae). Grass: a member of the Graminae family of flowering plants.
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Cyanobacteria Morphology and Introduction to the Archaea Life's extremists. . . These University of California Berkeley sites offer some pertinent information about a group of living organisms that resemble some of the earliest known fossils.
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We've grown the same strain of it for thousands of generations on agar and in liquid culture without it losing its unicellular morphology. Dozens to hundreds of labs have done this. Steady-state unicellular C.
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Gli1 - alterations of vein morphology and overgrowth of P compartment. Portions of vein 4 were frequently missing, but proximal vein 4, usually visible, was never fused with vein 3 (Fig 1B).
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" So, in collaboration with others, we looked at where one of the homeotic genes-ultrabithorax-was expressed in different species of crustaceans and asked, "Did that expression correlate with differences in the morphology between different types of ...
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In the presegmentation, two parallel strategies are employed: one using operations from (binary) mathematical morphology, the other using a digital Laplace filter for edge detection.
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Despite the underlying unity, life exhibits an astonishing wide diversity in morphology, behavior and life histories. In order to grapple with this diversity, biologists attempt to classify all living things.
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For tissue culture cells, cells transfected with foreign DNA are transformed if their exhibit morphology changes such as rounded cell bodies, loss of contact inhibition, and formation of plaques.
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Transformation (with respect to cultured cells): A change in cell morphology and behavior which is generally related to carcinogenesis.
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Although they share a basic morphology with bacteria and they are also prokaryotes (i.e. they lack a nuclear membrane), in many molecular details they resemble eukaryotes more than bacteria. Previously called Archaebacteria.
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: Evolution of two or more different lineages towards similar morphology due to similar adaptive pressures.
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endocytic pathway and have been shown to share a number of characteristics to merit their segregation into a single functional endocytic group. In this review, we compare experiments that describe similarities and differences in endosome morphology ...
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