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(Science: botany) Of flowers, borne singly, not grouped in an inflorescence.


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Reconciling Faith with Evolution

... Alex - we are almost in agreement! I certainly agree that a genetic predisposition to belief in the supernatural is likely not to be in just one solitary gene, but between several, plus or minus a few switches here and there. I am not well enough educated in the old religions to know whether ...

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by genovese
Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:41 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Reconciling Faith with Evolution
Replies: 114
Views: 9149

altruism and evolution

Recently, I red that it has been identified a altrusitic gene, which was from an ancestral and solitary unicellular organism. Upon evolution from unicellular to multicellular organism, pluricellular algae for example, clusters of some cells have renounced at their pluripotent ...

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by anfiosso
Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: altruism and evolution
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Views: 2254

Animal Name Game!

... and larvae most certanly dont. Is it a Coleoptera? Does it have complete metamorphosis? Yes, it is Coleoptera. Is it considered communal? No. Solitary. Is it a pest? Pest?! PEST?!!!! You dare call an insect a pest in my face?!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!! :evil: Lol! Just kidding. Unfortunately it is consider ...

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by Beetle
Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:20 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Animal Name Game!
Replies: 312
Views: 40195

This may sound like a strange question...

... and (under debate as of 2006) either four or five subspecies. And The Cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the Puma or Mountain Lion, is a large, solitary cat found in the Americas. Still, The Cougar can kill and drag prey about 7 times its own weight. It normally hunts large mammals, such as ...

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by dipjyoti
Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:16 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: This may sound like a strange question...
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Views: 2455

Cell Question

Colonies are a group things that work together to finish a job. So cell colonies do the same thing? And what about multicellular organisms?? and solitary cells?

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by Emir76
Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:49 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell Question
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Views: 918
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