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Octopus

octopus

(Science: zoology) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See devilfish.

Origin: NL. See Octopod.


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Why do you keep talking about species

... and Sand Dollars Class: Holothuroidea Sea Cucumbers Phylum: Mollusca Molluscs Class: Bivalvia Bivalves Class: Cephalopoda Squids, Cuttlefishes, Octopus, Nautilus Class: Gastropoda Snails, Slugs Class: Polyplacophora Chitons Kingdon: Plantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Flowering Plants Order: Casuarinales ...

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by gamila
Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
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Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

... aint she lucky the full quote says All members of the human population play their part in the survival of the species- humans are not a species of octopus or bacteria or amoeba or salmon If breast cancer rates are increasing.. it not a matter of them increasing it is a matter of the harmuful genes ...

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by gamila
Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
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Views: 1377

Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

... that NS or survival only matters up to the point where you survive long enough to reproduce These people seem to think humans are a species of octopus or salmon If all human women died after giving birth to children the kids would die as well-thus humans would not survive Kids need living parents ...

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by gamila
Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
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Views: 1377

Natural selection is proven wrong

... that NS or survival only matters up to the point where you survive long enough to reproduce These people seem to think humans are a species of octopus or salmon If all human women died after giving birth to children the kids would die as well-thus humans would not survive Kids need living parents ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Animal Name Game!

Is it a cephalopod? Is it a cuddlefish? Is it a squid? Is it a octopus? Torsion is the process a Gastropod goes through when it moved it's body about 180 degrees so it ends up pooping on it's head. (I've read slugs go through torsion, but then reverse it.)

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by February Beetle
Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:56 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Animal Name Game!
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