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The roof of the mouth in vertebrates formed anteriorly by a bony projection of the upper jaw and posteriorly by the fold of connecitve tissue (soft palate).
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secondary palate A plate of bone that separates the nasal and oral cavities of mammals and some reptiles.
secondary phloem All phloem tissue formed by the vascular cambium in woody tissues.
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cleft lip/palate
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Cleft lip/palate -- congenital condition with cleft lip alone, or with cleft palate; cause is thought to be multifactorial. Clone -- genetically engineered replicas of DNA sequences.
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Procynosuchus shows an increase in size of the dentary bone and the beginnings of a palate. Thrinaxodon has a reduced number of incisors, a precursor to tooth differentiation.
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An example of this approach is the mutated gene that resulted in cleft palates in mice. The researchers found that the gene's normal function is to close the embryo's palate.
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Patau syndrome is associated with severe mental retardation, small eyes that may exhibit a split in the iris (coloboma), a cleft lip and/or palate, weak muscle tone (hypotonia), an increased risk of heart defects, skeletal abnormalities, ...
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Cleft lip/palate
Upturned nose
Narrow eyelid folds (palpebral fissures)
Widely-spaced eyes (ocular hypertelorism)
Dropping of the upper eyelids (ptosis)
Overlapped, flexed fingers
Underdeveloped or absent thumbs
Underdeveloped nails ...
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the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland (Pitx1 = "Pituitary homeobox1");
jaw development (mutations are associated with cleft palate);
development of the thymus and some types of mechanoreceptors;
development of the hind limbs.
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pronounced with the soft palate extended downward so as to cause the air to leave through the nostrils instead of through the mouth).
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