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Feathered

Feathered

1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered mercury. (Shak) Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. (dr. J. Scott)

2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

3. (Science: zoology) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

4. Having feathers; said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.


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interbreeding and f2 crosses

In chickens, the white feathered allele is dominant to colored, feathered legs are dominant to non-feathered (clean), and "pea comb" is dominant to single comb. Each pair of alleles segregate independently. If a true-breeding ...

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by pohely
Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:52 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: interbreeding and f2 crosses
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Views: 437

Dinosaurs homeostasis

haha.... have we thought about the feathered dinosaurs? dorsal feathers on the Sinosauropteryx may be a clue to endothermic donosaurs, some method to perhaps keep heat? or maybe to reflect light if they were ectothermic?

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by nugget
Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:07 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Dinosaurs homeostasis
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Views: 1323

The Fiber Disease

... remains the same: complex systems imply a designer. In the past, examples that have been offered included the eye (optical system) and the feathered wing; current examples are mostly biochemical: protein functions, blood clotting, and bacteria flagella (see irreducible complexity). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design ...

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by Skytroll
Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:00 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Evolution of birds

... the beginig of the cretaceous[You can find a graph in the cambrian evolution topic that says about the temperature].This also the period were many feathered dinosaurs fossils were found.. Birds have keratin gamma which is different from what lizards [keratin alpha and beta] have.They must have ...

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by David George
Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:51 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution of birds
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Dinosaur Confusion

... the fossil of a dinosaur as having "feathers" without the proof to back it up. When the Chinese stumbled across their finds of "feathered" dinosaurs a team of experts was sent to determine if thats actually what was discovered, headed by John Ostrom. Turns out the fossils ...

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by flint
Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:54 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Dinosaur Confusion
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