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The Wonders of the Seas: Echinoderms
The water vascular system within the body of the animal is also filled with sea water. By expanding and contracting chambers within the water vascular system, the echinoderm can force water ... , are actually special tube feet and are part of the water vascular system. The water vascular system is not filled with sea water in sea cucumbers, as in sea stars and urchins, but ...
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Water: The Hub of Life
BANG History of Planet Water The following summary describes important stages in the development of water-carbon-based life on Earth, beginning with the birth of the Solar System about 4.6 billion ... were also formed between mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants -- culminating in trees that pump water high into the air -- to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and ...
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Water Hardness and Cardiovascular Mortality
More abundant in hard than in soft water areas as well as unaffected by the distribution system (TABLE 9). 2. More abundant in the myocardium of hard water residents than of soft water ... of Kidney Disease and Hypertensive Vascular Disease with Rice Diet. N. ...
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Death of Cedar Trees Cause Great Concern - March 19, 1998
The cedar's extensive canopy and its limited water requirements also make it useful in the protection of water catchment areas. According to a past issue of Green Horizon ... infected with bacteria that cause branch and stem galls, which in turn disrupt the trees' vascular system. In severe cases, entire tree trunk is completely encircled by the galls, the report says ...
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Health impacts of water pollution
Other heavy metals. –Heavy metals cause damage to the nervous system and the kidney, and other metabolic disruptions. Salts. It makes the fresh water ...
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Mooseworld, Moose Biology with Kristine Bontaites
The moose's immune system goes to work and try ... water in the winter months when the lakes and rivers are so frozen over? Are they able to store it like camels or does their system ... a species of the boreal forest in which water is usually quite abundant. As water hasn't been a limiting factor for moose its ...
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Natural Building Colloquium
Building • Straw-bale Dome • Earthen Plaster & Aliz • Natural Paints • Bamboo Technology: • Solar Distiller • Solar Water Heater • Composting Toilets • Watson Wick • Solar Ovens Home Page: networkearth Bamboo Architecture and ... to do it in the other direction) and the chemicals gradually move through the vascular system. To protect bamboo from fire use plaster. For structural bamboo it is important ...
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USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Duck Plague (Duck Virus Enteritis)
Lesions Duck plague attacks the vascular system and may cause bands or disk shaped areas of hemorrhagic or yellow/tan tissue ...
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Predator Conservation Trust: Cheetah information
Enlarged liver, heart, lungs and vascular system to allow for extra oxygen needed by the body Reduced canine ... absorb adequate moisture from their prey allowing them to go without water if necessary. Members of the Predator Conservation Trust were involved with ... exported or trophy hunted. This is strictly controlled through a permit system. RECOMMENDED READING © Predator ...
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Phylum Brachiopoda
Separated from coelomic channels. 4. Vesicle is contractile, but the role of this vascular system is not well known. It possibly involves circulation of food material 5. No particular ... Embryology A. Clusters of freely-shed eggs, enclosed in mucus, are often fertilized in the water. B. Holoblastic, subequal, radial cleavage, forms a coeloblastula. The latter gastrulates by invagination, and ...
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