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The heart is a muscular organ found in humans and other animals.This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. [1] Heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. [2]
18091 Ensembl ENSG00000183072 ENSMUSG00000015579 UniProt P52952 P42582 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004387 NM_001166175 NM_001166176 NM_008700 RefSeq (protein) NP_001159647 NP_001159648 NP_004378 NP_032726 Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 173.23 – 173.24 Mb Chr 17: 27.06 – 27.06 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Homeobox protein Nkx-2.5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NKX2 ...
Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under gill covers (operculum) on both sides of the pharynx (throat).
Cleithrum and scapula from a wrasse.The larger bone is the cleithrum. The cleithrum (pl.: cleithra) is a membrane bone which first appears as part of the skeleton in primitive bony fish, where it runs vertically along the scapula. [1]
Botia (Indian loaches) is a genus of freshwater fish in the loach family ().It was a large genus with about 20 species. In 2004 Maurice Kottelat proposed in his paper (along with the description of Botia kubotai, see References below) to divide the genus into four related genera based on fish appearance and locality:
Pethia is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia, East Asia (only Pethia stoliczkana recorded) and Mainland Southeast Asia. [2] Some species are commonly seen in the aquarium trade.
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (/ ˌ æ n ɪ ˈ m eɪ l i ə / [4]).With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only surviving xiphosurans.Despite their name, they are not true crabs or even crustaceans; they are chelicerates, more closely related to arachnids like spiders, ticks, and scorpions.