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Dictionary » T » Threads Threadsthread 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted. 2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver. 3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw. 4. Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. 5. Composition; quality; fineness. A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. (B. Jonson) air thread, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer. Thread and thrum, the good and bad together. (Science: zoology) Thread cell, the gizzard shad. See Gizzard. Thread lace, lace made of linen thread. Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; called also thread the needle. Origin: OE. Threed, red, AS. Rd; akin to D. Draad, G. Draht wire, thread, OHG. Drat, Icel. Rar a thread, Sw. Trad, Dan. Traad, and AS. Rawan to twist. See Throw, and cf. Third. ![]()
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Results from our forumInter species breeding with fertile offspring... that harmful genes are being transmitted when NS says they should be become rare but in fact they are common thus showing NS is wrong go read the threads http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about15939.html http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about15762.html better still go read ...
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Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion I'll be posting this message in all the threads you have started just to make sure that everyone knows what they are dealing with. good
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Re: A question from Cloning... to cross fertilize that way, even if it results in a weird organism? Thank you and MrMistery for your valuable opinions, I will come back with new threads as and when I may have some other doubts. Hey I forgot to add one more thing, if that Piggy experiment succeeds, that will nutralise the undue ...
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Re: Diversifying selectionSorry, I'm just going to leave it at the original topic. There are other threads to discuss what you want to discuss. As far as I know "diversifying" "disruptive" and "divergent" mean pretty much the same thing when it comes to ...
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Natural selection is proven wrong... the cynobacteria gave a big boost as for NS I think it may work alright in some cases within species but i dont think -for reasons given in other threads -that it cannot account for new species generation
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