Scales

You can also try skin (epidermis) of fleshy scales of onion. Easy to get. Just peel off a piece. Place it in a drop of water on the slide. Keep it expanded..i.e make sure it is not folded. Add a couple of drops of salt solution..say 10% potassium ...

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... Kinorhyncha Motion snout Mud dragons Eleven segments, each with a dorsal plate about 150 Loricifera Corset bearer Brush heads Umbrella-like scales at each end about 122 Micrognathozoa Tiny jaw animals — Accordion like extensible thorax 1 Mollusca Thin shell Mollusks / molluscs Muscular foot ...

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So I just got done with a very long argument with my MCDB friend about the timescales of cellular processes. My question is two-part. Firstly (the question that's kept me busy for the last hour), if all the DNA in your body were to vanish, your nuclei simply became empty of it, how long would it be ...

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... to the needle point of the macaws beak. If we are talking past or present not too long ago (under 100,000 years[short relative to geological time scales]) a 100 kilo marsupial lion lived in Australia (most closley related to wombat) which scientists have found to have had the strongest bite of ...

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... things becomes obvious to people at certain age, and then it's of course interesting to postulate that there could be universes in different "scales" because of this apparent logic: life on electron surface and stars being just electrons of larger systems. Naturally when you then learn ...

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