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-Vertebrate:.having
a backbone or spinal column; any of a large division of animals having
these things.
-Vestiges:.degenerate,
atrophied.(wasted
away).or
rudimentary.(biological.meaning:
an incompletely developed organ or part; an organ with no functional activity).organ
or part, more fully developed or functional in an earlier stage of development
of the individual or species.
The
appendix and
tonsils were stupidly once
thought to be a vestige.
-Visual
purple:.A
purplish pigment.(coloring
matter in the cells of plants and animals).in
the rods of the retina, bleached to visual yellow by the action of light
and considered a factor
in transforming
light rays into the sensory impulses
of vision. Also called rhodopsin.
-Weevils:.Any
of numerous beetles, of the superfamily Curculionoidea, especially the
snout beetle, that characteristically have a downward curving snout and
are destructive to nuts, fruits, stems and roots.
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