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Diving

That dives or is used or diving.

(Science: zoology) diving beetle, any beetle of the family Dytiscidae, which habitually lives under water; called also water tiger. Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. Diving dress. See submarine armor. Diving stone, a kind of jasper.


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... my first gess is: 1) Deep divers such as dolphins, whales and seals have high MCV. This may well be related to the need to store oxigen when diving. However some kind of balance must exist between cell size and number of cells (few big cells / many small ones). 2) Body size is likely to be ...

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by marquitosgm
Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:31 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Mean corpuscular volume differences
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... it’s a bit shorter, 100-300 bp on the SOLiD platform for example. Pickle suggests optimizing your shearing conditions ahead of time before diving into an experiment."

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by Paul1987
Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:33 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: ChIP-Seq for small number of cells
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Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:46 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
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by Julie5
Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:59 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Biology EE
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a question on evolution

... race. Nematodes make humans look quite amateurs. Also, I think squids are more successful than humans, because they can dive very deep without any diving apparatuses, but humans can not. And squids do not suffer from appendicitis or wisdom teeth.

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by biohazard
Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:42 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: a question on evolution
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