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4 days ago · You probably know snakes slither, but do you know how they slither? It turns out it depends on the snake, the habitat they are in and what is happening around them. Snakes can move in one of four ways: serpentine movement, sidewinding locomotion, rectilinear progression or concertina movement.
3 days ago · This article is about the field of zoology. For the jazz composition, see Ornithology (composition). Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. [ 1 ] Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. [ 2 ]
1 day ago · Biology is the science of life. It spans multiple levels from biomolecules and cells to organisms and populations.
3 days ago · A species (pl.: species) is a population of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. [ 1 ] It is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity.
4 days ago · protist, any member of a group of diverse eukaryotic, predominantly unicellular microscopic organisms. They may share certain morphological and physiological characteristics with animals or plants or both.
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4 days ago · Phospholipid, any member of a large class of fatlike, phosphorus-containing substances that play important structural and metabolic roles in living cells. The phospholipids, with the sphingolipids, the glycolipids, and the lipoproteins, are called complex lipids, as distinguished from the simple.
4 days ago · marsupial, any of more than 250 species belonging to the infraclass Metatheria (sometimes called Marsupialia), a mammalian group characterized by premature birth and continued development of the newborn while attached to the nipples on the mother’s lower belly.
