1 capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Petromyzontidae) of cyclostomes comprising the typical lampreys. 2 plural -s : any cyclostome of the genus
What does the word "related" mean when discussing how species within a genus are related? What is the difference between an extinct species and an extant species? What is the term used to refer to the variety of different species in a given area?
Lander AD, Kimble J, Clevers H, Fuchs E, Montarras D, Buckingham M, Calof AL, Trumpp A, Oskarsson T (2012) What does the concept of the stem cell niche really mean today? BMC Biol 10:19 Google Scholar Lanza R, Atala A (2014) (eds.) Essentials of stem cell biology. Academic Pr...
What Does min Mean? PETE J. WILLIAMS ABSTRACT The Biblical use of the Hebrew word min ('kind') and also its usage in post-Biblical Hebrew suggest that the word min is most likely a word of biological origin. Words historically connected with min in other languages and the way min was ...
The 4E approach in (philosophy of) cognitive science—based on ideas that the mind is embodied, embedded, extended, and enacted—is so diverse that it defies straightforward explanation. This paper considers the most ecumenical explanation of the extant concept of the 4E approach. Purported explanat...
What does a bootstrapping value of 100 mean on a phylogenetic tree node? What are sister taxa? What are taxa? How do they relate to clades? Can Phylogenetic Trees be used in other aspects of Biology? How do you construct a cladogram? What is hierarchical classification in biology? Does...
You’re searching the database and land on a donor you really like – she played your favorite sport as a child and her eyes remind you of your mother’s. Then you notice she is listed as an “open release donor” and your mind races – What does this mean? What am I signing up...
(especially before any of the extant birds arose) would be kosher. A variation of this would be to also exclude the extinct members of the forbidden extant groups. For this purpose we can examine the relationships of the nearly all 10,000 living bird species that have been worked out in ...
Virtually any palaeontologist who knows about the biology of extant meat-eaters and the fossil evidence of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs accepts that T. rex was both a predator and scavenger; it was a carnivore like virtually any other kind that has ever been known to exist. While the discovery ...
Describe the phloem tissue in pteridophytes and gymnosperm plants. "Vascular plants have Xylem and Phloem to conduct saps up and down the stem". What does this mean? How are the xylem and phloem arranged in a eudicot root? a) The xylem is at the periphery of the root...