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An operculum is a small piece of gum that is covering part of a tooth, usually a wisdom tooth, which has still not erupted fully. If that tooth doesn't erupt further more, the operculum can remain there and be easily infected because food c...
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1. a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted
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The word 'operculum' is being taken from the Latin language and it describes the phenomenon of a little lid and it describes several things and all of them are pertinent to biology. You can use the word as a synonymous term to describe the ...
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Opercule, operculum: the bony flap that covers the gills Lateral line: a series of muciferous tubes forming a raised line (more?)
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youll just have to do the experiment and see
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the protective plate on each side of a fish's head the protects the gills, this is confused as being the gills
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The convolutions of the cerebrum. The margins of which are separated by the lateral cerebral fissure.
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In biology, operculum (Latin for "little lid") has been used to describe several different anatomical features, in animals, in humans and even in plants. The following list gives some of the uses of the term: Operculum (gastropod)...
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"The calyptra forms from the wall of tissue that encases the archegonium of a female shoot present during the gametophyte stage of the moss life cycle. Before the spores are released from a capsule, the operculum and calyptra are shed ...
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Hi there. I dare to explain those things with some more details. Dichotomous branching occurs when the apical meristem divide into two identical parts that grow more less simultanously. In that type no branching is dominating (cotrary to mo...
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