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In the majority of species of caecilians, the young are produced by vivipary.
A paradox in metabolism is that, while the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen for its existence, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species.
The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.
The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes ( the great majority of existing fish species ), the forebrain has become " everted ", like a sock turned inside out.
All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera ; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae.
The knowledge of this order to national level, is that to be expected in countries with limited economic means with the vast majority of species indeterminate or even poorly determined.
Thanks to Magneto, though, this re-imagined world is a place where a much more numerous mutant-kind are the dominant species, humans a disenfranchised and oppressed ' silent majority ', and Magneto himself rules supreme.
In the great majority of species, the tail is between a third and a half the length of the body, although there are some exceptions ( for example, the bobcat and margay ).
Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.
The vast majority of animal species are invertebrates, since only about 3 % of animal species include a vertebral column in their anatomy.
There are about 255 species in North America, but the majority of species live in the tropical regions of the world.
Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests.
All 651 species of terrestrial snail are endemic, as are a majority of the island's butterflies, scarab beetles, lacewings, spiders and dragonflies.
The majority of non-silicate mineral species are extremely rare ( constituting in total 8 % of the Earth's crust ), although some are relative common, such as calcite, pyrite, magnetite, and hematite.
In bilaterian animals, which make up the great majority of existing species, the nervous system has a common structure that originated early in the Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago.
These include sensory neurons that transmute physical stimuli such as light and sound into neural signals, and motor neurons that transmute neural signals into activation of muscles or glands ; however in many species the great majority of neurons receive all of their input from other neurons and send their output to other neurons.
The vast majority of fish are osteichthyes, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of over 29, 000 species.
El Yunque National Forest, a tropical rainforest, is home to the majority ( 13 of 16 ) of species of coquí.
Up until the last half-decade, the majority of the scientific community included all the species of both Australopithecus and Paranthropus in a single genus.
The great majority of mollusk species produce pearls which are not attractive, and are sometimes not even very durable, such that they usually have no value at all, except perhaps to a scientist, a collector, or as a curiosity.

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And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.
It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.
Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.
A recent survey disclosed there are about 4,000 commercially and municipally operated marinas and boatyards in the United States, the majority of which are equipped to handle outboard boats.
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.
And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.
the majority of such contacts are with people of similar social and economic position ; ;
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.
In pure water the majority of molecules exist as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but a small number of molecules are constantly dissociating and re-associating.
The majority of scientific contributions by amateur astronomers are in the area of data collection.
Had the AMD been allowed to depreciate to its market level, exports would have become more competitive and the purchasing power of the majority of the population who are dependent on remittances from abroad would have increased.
The majority of lands in American Samoa and independent Samoa are communal.
This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.
The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion .< ref name =" acomm ">
Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.
Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.
* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

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In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.
The Liberals now found themselves with 59 members holding the balance of power in a Parliament where Labour was the largest party but lacked an overall majority.
The majority is found within the president's lifeguard, while others patrol Bangui and the north-west parts of the country.
Some evidence indicates that during armoured combat the intention was to actually get around the armour rather than through it — according to a study of skeletons found in Visby, Sweden, a majority of the skeletons showed wounds on less well protected legs.
LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.
However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.
The vast majority of all diodes are the p – n diodes found in CMOS integrated circuits, which include two diodes per pin and many other internal diodes.
Recent work suggests that this may not be the case with single stranded viruses forming the majority of viruses found in sea water, fresh water, sediment, terrestrial, extreme, metazoan-associated and marine microbial mats.
Students of Imam Malik established the Maliki school of which a majority now can be found in North Africa and some Persian gulf states.
Long divided culturally between majority Finnish speakers and minority Swedish speakers, Finns found common ground in opposition to the policy of Russian integration begun in 1899.
At the same time he found the church to be a " selfish ... church of the landed gentry " with its establishment " out of touch " with the majority of its communicants and altogether a pernicious influence on public life.
According to the majority viewpoint for most of the 20th century, Jesus ' teaching in John is largely irreconcilable with that found in the Synoptics, and scholars consider the Synoptics to be more accurate representations of the teaching of the historical Jesus.
Marian devotion similar to this kind is also found in Eastern Orthodoxy and sometimes in Anglicanism, though not in the majority of denominations of Protestantism.
By mid-December to early January, the majority are usually found between Monterey and San Diego, often visible from shore.
The majority of hydrocarbons found naturally occur in crude oil, where decomposed organic matter provides an abundance of carbon and hydrogen which, when bonded, can catenate to form seemingly limitless chains.
Many modern studies, most notably Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey, have found that the majority of humans have had both heterosexual and homosexual experiences or sensations and are bisexual.
Some Russian individualists anarchists " found the ultimate expression of their social alienation in violence and crime, others attached themselves to avant-garde literary and artistic circles, but the majority remained " philosophical " anarchists who conducted animated parlor discussions and elaborated their individualist theories in ponderous journals and books.
The majority of imprinted genes in mammals have been found to have roles in the control of embryonic growth and development, including development of the placenta.
The majority of these recipes are not employed today, as there are few companies to be found that produce them.
The majority of the lakes are found in the eastern part of the country.
They found that a majority signed on the grounds that it transferred income from employers to workers, or equalized bargaining power between them in the labor market.
A poll of ex-Mormons found that a majority do not self-identify as a member of another faith, choosing to describe themselves as agnostic, atheist, or simply ex-Mormon.
While in other nations the customs officials were responsible for most stops, in Mali, gendarmerie ( National paramilitary police ) and the Police force were found creating the majority of bribe extorting roadblocks.

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