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  2. Spider web - Wikipedia

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    A classic circular form spider's web Infographic illustrating the process of constructing an orb web. A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning 'spider') [1] is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.

  3. Sempervivum arachnoideum - Wikipedia

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    Sempervivum arachnoideum, the cobweb house-leek, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to European mountains, in the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians. Growing to 8 cm (3 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in) wide, it is a rosette -forming succulent perennial , valued in cultivation for its ability to colonise hot, dry areas ...

  4. Wood-decay fungus - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Each produce different enzymes, can degrade different plant materials, and can colonise different environmental niches. [6] Brown rot and soft rot both digest a tree's cellulose and hemicellulose but not its lignin; white rot digests lignin as well. The residual products of decomposition from fungal action have variable pH, solubility ...

  5. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Dimorphic – of two different forms. Ecad – a plant assumed to be adapted to a specific habitat. Ecotone – the boundary that separates two plant communities, generally of major rank – trees in woods and grasses in savanna for example. Ectogenesis – variation in plants due to conditions outside of the plants.

  6. Horizontal gene transfer in evolution - Wikipedia

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    The three main early branches of the tree of life have been intensively studied by microbiologists because the first organisms were microorganisms. Microbiologists (led by Carl Woese) have introduced the term domain for the three main branches of this tree, where domain is a phylogenetic term similar in meaning to biological kingdom.

  7. Rare genetic skin disorder causes man to look like a tree

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    Epidermodysplasia verruciformis is different in that it leaves victims unable to fight off certain types of HPV. "Tree man" syndrome is so rare that only 200 cases have been reported globally.

  8. Theridiidae - Wikipedia

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    Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. [1] This diverse, globally distributed family includes over 3,000 species in 124 genera , [ 2 ] and is the most common arthropod found in human dwellings throughout ...

  9. Christina Aguilera Flaunts Her Toned Body While Celebrating ...

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    In one photo, Aguilera stood alongside fiancé Matthew Rutler, draping her arm up around his neck as a Christmas tree dressed in pumpkins, skeletons, spiders and cobwebs shone behind them. “My ...