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Ring-tailed

ring-tailed

(Science: zoology) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of colour.

(Science: zoology) ring-tailed cat, a young golden eagle.


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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... but there are subspecies of different kinds of cows and subspecies of different kinds of camels. In the wild there is what are called "ring species" that slowly extended their territory in a direction that in time brings them back to where they started, forming a ring. By the time ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16506

can galactose be convert into fructose?

... a more favorable reaction to phosphorylate a hydroxyl group on the chain (carbon 1) in a ketose sugar than any of the hydroxyl groups inside the ring of an aldose sugar (aldose sugars like glucose do not have a hydroxyl group on Carbon 1 and have a carbonyl group instead. You need a hydroxyl ...

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by MrMistery
Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:36 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: can galactose be convert into fructose?
Replies: 3
Views: 84

Re: two different color eyes

both my eyes have 3 colors in them blue yellow and green, i have 3 cirkles in my eyes that have one color each the outer ring is blue and the next is yellow and the green is the last. :shock:

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by kingpower
Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:07 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: two different color eyes
Replies: 82
Views: 43383

Why do you keep talking about species

... Squids, Cuttlefishes, Octopus, Nautilus Class: Gastropoda Snails, Slugs Class: Polyplacophora Chitons Kingdon: Plantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Flowering Plants Order: Casuarinales Casuarinas and She-Oaks Order: Fabales Wattles, Peas and Cassias Order: Gentianales Gentians and relatives Order: Malvales ...

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by gamila
Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
Replies: 20
Views: 599

The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... or with the resulting species, or as something else entirely? Many species today exist right on this cusp of a speciation event, and are called ring species. To put it very briefly, population A can interbreed with population B, which can interbreed with population C, but A and C can't interbreed. ...

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by alextemplet
Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:02 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2170
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