excretion
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The researchers published this challenge to the paradigm as a brief, "Unifying Fluidic Excretion Across Life from Cicadas to Elephants," in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of March 11.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024
Excretion occurs through a pore called the nephridiopore.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Excretion is carried out by pairs of primitive “kidneys” called metanephridia that consist of a convoluted tubule and an open, ciliated funnel present in every segment.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Students are taught that the vital attributes of life can be summed up in the mnemonic "Mrs Gren": Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth-and-repair, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013
They were here, said I. The Volumes with your Data, your Diet & Excretion &c.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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