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61Ediacara biota — The Ediacara (IPAEng|ˌiːdɪˈækərə, formerly Vendian) biota are ancient lifeforms of the Ediacaran Period, which represent the earliest known complex multicellular organisms. They appeared soon after the Earth thawed from the Cryogenian period s… …
62Mick O’Hare — is a British editor and writer. Currently, he is an editor for New Scientist, writing amongst other things the The Last Word column of questions and answers. He edited Profile’s recent bestselling book Does Anything Eat Wasps? and its successor… …
63Mollusc shell — Closed and open shells of a marine bivalve, Petricola pholadiformis. A bivalve shell is composed of two hinged valves which are joined by a ligament …
64Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar — Sir Thomas Robert Dewar (1864 1930) was a Scottish whisky distiller who, along with his brother John Dewar, built their family label, Dewar s, into an international success. They blended their whisky to make it more appealing to the international …
65fossilization — See fossilize. * * * …
66circulation — circulable /serr kyeuh leuh beuhl/, adj. /serr kyeuh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing. 2. the continuous movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels, which is maintained… …
67echinoderm — /i kuy neuh derrm , ek euh neuh /, n. any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea …
68fossil — fossillike, adj. /fos euhl/, n. 1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. 2. a markedly outdated or old fashioned person or thing. 3. a linguistic form that is archaic except… …
69-ize — a verb forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have entered English through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general… …
70photoreception — photoreceptive, adj. /foh toh ri sep sheuhn/, n. the physiological perception of light. [1905 10; PHOTO + RECEPTION] * * * Biological responses to stimulation by light, most often referring to the mechanism of vision. In one celled organisms such …
