At birth, there are over 270 bones in an infant human's body, but many of these fuse together as the child grows, leaving a total of 206 separate bones in an adult.

This process is slow enough that in many cases the bog grows rapidly and fixes more carbon from the atmosphere than is released.

With many devices on one line the workload in servicing interrupts grows in proportion to the square of the number of devices.

As the industry grows, it will provide employment for many local residents as well as large revenues for the city officials.

Some kinds of exoskeletons undergo periodic moulting as the animal grows, as is the case in many arthropods including insects and crustaceans.

Another example is " The Rarie ", in which an imaginary, exotic animal known as a Rarie is bought by someone as a cute pet, but progressively grows so large ( described in many stages ) that its owner cannot keep it.

In high school basketball, many states have a " continuous clock " rule, similar to American football, which takes effect in the second half after a lead grows to a prescribed point ( e. g., in Iowa, 35 points or more ).

There is a growing gap between how many fish are available to be caught and humanity ’ s desire to catch them, a problem that gets worse as the world population grows.

The term " shallot " is further used for the French gray shallot or griselle ( Allium oschaninii ), a species which has been considered to be the " true shallot " by many ; it grows wild from Central to Southwest Asia.

According to Nevill ( citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy ), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, " There grows the stuff that won Waterloo ", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to " the manly character induced by games and sport " amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.

During World War II's Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, many refugees survived on tapioca, as the plant is easily propagated by stem-cutting, grows well in low-nutrient soils, and can be harvested every two months, though takes ten months to grow to full maturity.

An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant ( such as a tree ) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object ( such as a building or a telegraph wire ), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone ( e. g., many mosses, liverworts, lichens and algae ) or in the tropics ( e. g., many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads ).

The story follows David as he grows to adulthood and is enlivened by the many well-known characters who enter, leave, and re-enter his life.

A further connection is that the centriole, involved in the formation of the mitotic spindle in many ( but not all ) eukaryotes, is homologous to the cilium, and in many cases is the basal body from which the cilium grows.

It grows rapidly and is tolerant of many soils and varied situations, although it prefers the glacial drift and well-drained borders of streams.

Among the many conjectures as to this tree, the most probable is that it is the osher ( Calotropis procera ) of the Arabs, which grows from Jordan to southern Egypt.

The juniper grows slowly by comparison to many of the introduced species, and has been unable to thrive in the presence of Casuarina and Brazilian pepper trees.

The maguey grows in many parts of Mexico, though most mezcal is made in Oaxaca.

It is rarely a predominant tree, but it grows in association with many other species.

The expected number of swaps grows faster than the expected number of comparisons, because if the elements are not in order, this will usually be discovered after only a few comparisons no matter how many elements there are, but the work of shuffling the collection is proportional to its size.

In a zone generally up to 10-25m away from running water grows a distinct vegetation community often containing many rare or threatened species only found along several streams in the world.

* it grows on the mountains, ' swiftly spreading ', ' apart on many paths ' ( Yasna 9. 26, 10. 3-4 et al.

This consumption grows during autumn and winter, or in the cold regions of the country ; there are two dates where consumption of chocolate infusions is traditional in the primary educational centres: 25 May and 9 July, that is, the two national dates of Argentina.

In regions where it grows, fresh young pods are eaten as a vegetable in dishes such as sambar.

S. mahagoni grows on the West Indian islands as far north as the Bahamas, the Florida Keys and parts of Florida ; S. humilis grows in the dry regions of the Pacific coast of Central America from south-western Mexico to Costa Rica ; S. macrophylla grows in Central America from Yucatan southwards and into South America, extending as far as Peru, Bolivia and extreme western Brazil.

menziesii ), grows in the coastal regions, from west-central British Columbia, Canada southward to central California.

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Today, it grows wild in all the world's warm and moderate regions, where it is found along roadsides and in dung heaps.

The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk.

Cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca shrub, which grows in the mountain regions of South American countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.

In Europe Pueraria montana grows in several places in warm regions on Lake Maggiore and Lake Lugano, Switzerland and Italy.

As each nation grows, adding more and more population to the board, players can build cities in regions they control.

Mustard grows well in temperate regions.

It is a compact tree with small leaves and no thorns which grows to a height of three meters and can be found in Malta, Libya and in the Liguria, Tuscany, Sicily, and Calabria regions of Italy.

The sac is reinforced with dead leaves and similar material ; if built indoors without disturbance, scraps of paper might be collected and used instead. Australian Sparassid egg sac hatching Palystes castaneus egg purse However, other genera build different sacs ; Pseudomicrommata makes its nest in Eragrostis grass and may be ecologically confined to regions where the grass grows.

The species Z. zizyphus grows in cooler regions of Asia.

As a tumor grows, it rapidly outgrows its blood supply, leaving portions of the tumor with regions where the oxygen concentration is significantly lower than in healthy tissues.

Casablanca is one of Chile's cooler wine regions and is often compared to the Californian wine region of Carneros and grows similar grape varietals like Chardonnay and Pinot noir.

As a member of the grass family, bamboo grows rampant in various regions around the world without the use of pesticides.

In some regions of the world, bamboo grows almost 3 feet in a 24-hour period assuring complete replenishment.

The majority of species ( about 45 to 70 ) belong to the genus Marsilea, which grows worldwide in warm-temperate and tropical regions.

The third genus Pilularia grows widely in temperate regions of both the northern and southern hemispheres.

It has since naturalised in many regions and grows wild in Europe, South Africa, India, and Australia.

For sustainable production, guayule grows well in arid and semi arid areas of the southwestern United States, North Central Mexico and regions with similar climates around the world.