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- Root (9635 bytes)
2: [[Image:ROOTS1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Primary and secondary roo...
3: ...two major functions of roots are 1) absorption of water and inorganic nutrients and 2) anchoring the ...
6: ...humb|Roots of a [[Hydroponics|hydroponically]] grown plant]]
7: ...'''mucigel''', a sticky mucilage that coats the new formed cells. These cells contain '''statoliths''...
9: ...known as '''''[[osmosis]]'''''. For this reason, water that is [[salinity|saline]] is more difficult... - Mustelids (5262 bytes)
2: ...image = [[Image:WEASEL.JPG]] | caption = Longtail Weasel}}
17: ... include [[mink]], [[Badger (animal)|badger]]s, [[weasel]]s, [[polecat]]s, and [[marten]]s.
19: ...r the past 40 million years and roughly coincided with the appearance of [[rodent]]s.
21: ...he others and they do not destroy the [[kelp]] in which they live.
23: Just as otters are adapted to swimming, several groups of badgers are adapted to d... - Sloths (6298 bytes)
15: ...34 degrees Celsius), and still lower temperatures when resting.
17: ...round, to urinate and defecate, only about once a week.
19: ...ur or absorbed through the skin. Many wild sloths will actually look like they have green fur because...
21: ...tation to living in trees, sloths make competent swimmers.
23: ... indirectly because the mothers sometimes prove unwilling to leave the safety of the trees to retriev... - Flatulence (3532 bytes)
1: ... some people find the word ''fart'' offensive and will use a euphemism as an alternative. Most animal...
6: ... the nose and mouth. Endogenous gas is produced within the digestive tract.
8: ...ude [[bean]]s, [[milk]], [[onion]]s, [[yam]]s, [[sweet potato]]es, citrus rinds, [[chestnut]]s, [[bro...
10: ...ne]] largely unchanged, and when they reach the lower intestine, [[bacteria]] feed on them, producing...
12: ...lactose can give rise to excessive gas production when milk or lactose-containing substances have bee... - Cellulose (2147 bytes)
6: ...ellulose]], historically used in [[smokeless gunpowder]].
8: ...rmite]]s, can digest cellulose with the help of [[symbiosis|symbiotic]] micro-organisms - see [[methanogen]].
10: ...e recently [[Modal]], a textile derived from beechwood cellulose.
12: Cellulose is also used within the laboratory as a solid-state substrate fo...
17: ...rength. This strength is important in cell walls, where they are meshed into a carbohydrate ''matrix'... - Fabaceae (3530 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
18: ...sive species|invasive]] [[weed]] that tends to grow over everything.
20: ...family in the order Fabales, on the basis of [[flower]] morphology (specifically, [[petal]] shape):
21: ...he two adjacent petals are on the sides, and the two bottom petals are joined together at the bottom,...
22: ...deae flowers in ''[[Cercis]]'', while symmetrical with five equal petals in ''[[Bauhinia]]''. - Coral (8108 bytes)
2: ...n diameter, which are individual [[organism]]s. However, they function as one organism by sharing nut...
4: ...epths of 60 m (200 ft). Corals breed by spawning, with many corals of the same species in a region re...
7: ...[Indonesia]] is home to 581 of the world's 793 known coral reef-building coral species.
11: ... end of the [[Paleozoic]]. Most other anthozoans would be treated under the common name of "[[sea an...
15: ...]] period, when Rugose and Tabulate corals became widespread. - Lichen (7988 bytes)
2: ...jpg|thumb|500 px|right|Yellow and white lichen growing on a tree]]
3: ...mb|230 px|right|Crustose and foliose lichens on a wall]]
5: ...x|right|''Usnea australis'', a fruticose form, growing on a tree branch]]
8: .... Some lichen taxonomists place lichens in their own division, the '''Mycophycophyta''', but this pra...
10: ...tects the alga against drying out and provides it with minerals obtained from the [[substratum]]. If ...
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