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- noun Plural form of
vertebrate .
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Examples
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Thus it was that Cuvier came forward with a brand-new classification of the animal kingdom, establishing four great types of being, which he called vertebrates, mollusks, articulates, and radiates.
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The assessment, in two papers published Tuesday in the journal Science, concludes that the survival of one-fifth of the world's vertebrates is threatened.
A War Against Extinction Gautam Naik 2010
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The convergence of the hydrodynamic shape among vertebrates is currently thought to be due to the environment/similar niche/even interactions:
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That means Common Descent, the evolution of complex structures in vertebrates, observations of natural selection, etc.
Attached to Strings 2009
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By borrowing mathematical tools from theoretical physics, scientists have recently developed a theory that explains why the brain tissue of humans and other vertebrates is segregated into the familiar "gray matter" and "white matter."
January 12th, 2006 2006
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Having spent the day so far on obscure Cretaceous vertebrates from the Iberian Peninsula, and on dull editorial work, I thought I'd waste some time and post the following entry on - sorry - not phorusrhacoids, but cassowaries.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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It is worth noting that there are many genes that can be deleted in vertebrates with no apparent consequences, at least in a laboratory environment.
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It is worth noting that there are many genes that can be deleted in vertebrates with no apparent consequences, at least in a laboratory environment.
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Organisms employ evolutionary computation to solve many of the tasks of living (cf. the immune system in vertebrates).
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Tumors occur in vertebrates of so many kinds that it would not be surprising if neoplastic changes took place in them all.
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