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- noun Plural form of
sponge . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sponge .
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Examples
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It's a strongly-flvoured salad, pretty pungent from the raw garlic and onion, so really letting the veggies marinate (add some cubed up tofu too for yummy protein "sponges"!) as long as possible is key to avoiding a mouthful of fire!
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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"What we found in sponges though were the building blocks for nerves, something we never expected to find."
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He said that FLE fully expects these genes to be expressed and to perform a function in sponges that was selected for and allowed these genes to persist.
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He said that FLE fully expects these genes to be expressed and to perform a function in sponges that was selected for and allowed these genes to persist.
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But where (in sponges) are they actually expressed?
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I don't remember anybody predicting that a structure found in sponges to be the precursor for synapses.
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And that is exactly the case here, as this study found that those genes, though virtually identical between sponges and humans, serve a different function in sponges than they do in humans (obviously so, since the sponges have no nervous system).
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I went through the entire paper and couldn't find a single mention of any "mysterious unknown structure" in sponges, nor any assertions that this mystery structure is an expression these post-synaptic genes.
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And aren't the little sea creatures we call sponges asexual?
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2005
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I went first to Brayton's blog to see if he knew what functions these genes were serving in sponges.
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