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Foot-and-mouth disease virus
FMD occurs throughout much of the world, including parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.
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Foot and mouth disease
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs.
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foot 1. The basal portion of a moss sporophyte, embedded in the gametophyte. 2.The muscular locomotory structure of molluscs.
forage crops Crops that are grown as food for domesticated herbivores.
forager Hunter-gatherer group.
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foot
The molluscian organ of locomotion.
Covered in Lab 12 Animal Diversity II
frond
A big compound leaf applied to those of palms and ferns.
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a foot, which absorbs water, minerals, and probably some food from the parent gametophyte.
a stalk, at the tip of which is formed a
sporangium.
The sporangium is ...
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Hand-foot syndrome. When small blood vessels in hands or feet are blocked, pain and swelling can result, along with fever. This may be the first symptom of sickle cell anemia in infants.
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Tentacle-tube-foot suspension feeder. Suspension feeder that traps particles on distinct tentacles or tube feet (in echinoderms) ...
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pertaining to the foot or feet
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand; as: (a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
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it retains activity comparable to that of the wild-type protein at short range (as assayed by its ability to promote normal hair, whisker, tooth, and lung development and to promote the specification of the most posterior digits in the hand and foot ...
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a head/foot region containing sensory organs and a muscular structure (foot) used for locomotion. The foot is a muscular structure used for locomotion, attachment to a substrate, food capture, or a combination of functions.
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As reported in Rao 1998, Volvo has used an evolutionary program called OptiFlex to schedule its million-square-foot factory in Dublin, Virginia, ...
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Plants growing in steppes are usually greater than 1 foot tall. They include blue grama and buffalo grass, cacti, sagebrush, speargrass, and small relatives of the sunflower. Steppe fauna includes badgers, hawks, owls, and snakes.
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These are the hand on the left and the foot on the right of Rodhocetus, which is one of the new finds in 2000. And a skull of Artiocetus which is the other one we found in 2000 that has a skeleton with ankle bones preserved in it.
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Adaptations are structures or behaviors that allow efficient use of the environment. For example, the webbed foot of a duck enables it to swim better than a foot that is not webbed.
Adaptations are due to genes, that is, they are inherited.
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Metatarsals the bones in the arch of the foot the bones that make up the sole of the foot
(meta = between with after; tarsus = the ankle) ...
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(pol-ip) [Gk. polus, many + pous, foot]
The sessile variant of the cniderian body plan. The alternate form is the medusa.
polypeptide ...
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