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The enlargement or swelling on roots of nitrogen-fixing plants. The nodules contain symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria.
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Nodules are filled with hemoglobin. So much of it, in fact, that a freshly-cut nodule is red.
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nodule A tumorlike growth on the roots of certain higher plants that encloses a population of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
nomenclature The study of the naming of organisms in the fashion that reflects their evolutionary relationships.
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Nodule. The enlargement or swelling on roots of nitrogen- fixing plants. The nodules contain symbiotic nitrogen- fixing bacteria. See Nitrogen fixation.
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Fewer nodules are present after desynapsis.
Prophase of meiosis I occurs in morphologically distinguishable stages (above).
The width of the synaptonemal complex (SC), 200 nm between axial elements, is 100 X the width of a DNA helix.
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A member of the pea family that possesses root nodules containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Library. A collection of cells, usually bacteria or yeast, that have been transformed with recombinant vectors carrying DNA inserts from a single species.
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Development of a root nodule, a place in the roots of certain plants, most notably legumes (the pea family), where bacteria live symbiotically with the plant.
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Kinetochore microtubules shorten, severing the recombination nodules and pulling homologous chromosomes apart. Since each chromosome only has one kinetochore, whole chromosomes are pulled toward opposing poles, forming two haploid sets.
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those capable of combining free nitrogen of the air with oxygen, either in the nodules of the roots of leguminous plants (such as clover, peas, alfalfa, etc.), ...
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Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys
White Nodules — follicles in the white pulp of the spleen, containing many lymphocytes ...
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One striking example involves the Rhizobium bacterium, which helps fix nitrogen for legumes (such as pea and clover plants). This bacterium colonizes root hairs in specialized nodules built by the plant.
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oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales), sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, precious stones
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