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In taxonomy, a situation where a genus group taxon is established with only one immediately subordinate taxon, e.g., a genus containing only one species.
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One of the four nitogenous bases in DNA and RNA that make up the letters ATGC, guanine is the "G". The others are adenine, cytosine, and thymine. Guanine always pairs with cytosine.
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The outside layer or covering of a bivalve (Mollusca) shell.
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The subdiscipline of oceanography concerned with the propagation and interaction of radiation, typically at wavelengths between about 350 and 750 nm, with seawater.
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The warm ocean current of the North Atlantic. It originates in the westward equatorial current and is deflected northward by the coast of South America into the Gulf of Mexico and then follows the coast of North America to Nantucket, where it is deflected eastward toward northern Europe.
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A bundle of neurons (nerve cells); specifically, a bundle of axons which are the motor processes of neurons which carry nervous impulses in the direction away from the cell bodies.
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A feeding polyp of a colonial hydrozoan. It bears tentacles armed with nematocysts, a mouth and a thin outer covering, the hydrotheca.
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A long or short hair-like extension of the cell membrane of a eukaryote cell used for locomotion or propelling fluids over the surface of the cell body; undulipodia is a collective term for flagella and cilia.
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