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Convergence (Mexico) is a political party in Mexico that was previously known as Convergence for Democracy.
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Convergence
The evolutionary development of similar external morphological traits in organisms which are unrelated (except through distant ancestors) as each adapts to a similar way of life and/or environment.
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Convergence
When a person stares at an object, the two eyeballs rotate sideways to point to the object, so that the object appears at the center of the image formed in each eye's retina.
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convergence -- Similarities which have arisen independently in two or more organisms that are not closely related. Contrast with homology.
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Convergence. The contact at the sea surface between two water masses converging, one plunging below the other
Copepod. Order of crustaceans found often in the plankton
Coprophagy. Feeding on fecal material ...
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Cynthia Needham (ICAN Productions)
Produce a treatment for a proposed public TV documentary on nanotechnology, especially nanotechnology that involves biology.
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The convergence of the availability of serious amounts of money in the 70's, ...
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Premature convergence does occur in nature (where it is called genetic drift by biologists).
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morphological convergence The evolution of basically dissimilar structures to serve a common function. For example: the wings of birds and insects.
morula The solid-ball stage of the pre-emplantation embryo. PICTURE ...
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Convergence: phenotypic similarity in distantly related (or unrelated) forms, presumably in response to similar selective pressures.
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Examples of convergence are: fins or fin-like structures in fish, cuttlefish and whales; extreme similarity in alarm calls by five small birds;
endothermy
in dogs and ducks, wings of butterflies and birds.
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[L. primitus - at first]. Longitudinal cleft formed on surface of amniote blastodisc by a convergence of cells. Gastrulation begins as epiblast cells migrate towards and into the streak.
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109-119 12 Convergence of the SUMO and MAPK pathways on the ETS-domain transcription factor Elk-1 Shen-Hsi Yang and Andrew D. Sharrocks..........
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each involve different species in the early stages. In any given region, though, the species in the final, self-sustaining climax forest are the same. The tendency for all plant communities to end in the same climax community is called convergence.
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Covering most of the ocean floor and ranging in thickness from 60 m to 3,300 m (200 ft to 11,000 ft), they are thickest in the convergence belts and in the zones of upwelling. Authigenic deposits consist of such materials as manganese nodules.
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