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They attach to things with ' strings ', byssal threads, which come out of their umbo on the dorsal ( hinged ) side.
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They attach themselves firmly to olive trees and reduce the quality of the fruit ; their main predators are wasps.
They attach to the cell surface via specific receptors and are taken up by an endosomal vesicle.
They are characterised by a protective outer case called a lorica and their habitat, which is in the spaces between marine gravel to which they attach themselves.
They attach themselves quite firmly to the substratum, and hence remained undiscovered for so long.
They have been found to house the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera, by allowing the cholera vibrios to attach to their chitinous exoskeletons.
They attach to the host through their slender anterior end and feed on tissue secretions instead of blood.
They broaden to a swollen base up to 5 mm wide where they attach in clusters to a bulb-like, underground rhizome characteristic of most quillwort species, though a few ( e. g. I. tegetiformans ) form spreading mats.
They also act as tracks for the movement of myosin molecules that attach to the microfilament and " walk " along them.
They have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns, although the nostrils on the albatross are on the sides of the bill.
They soon attach themselves to one of four teats inside the mother's pouch.
They attach themselves to practically every natural thing.
They are able to attach on the rock surface and remove food particles in the turbulent water while the mobile herbivores and carnivores inhabit in the sheltered shores.
They have to attach themselves to the surfaces, become predominantly detritus feeders and have a mechanism for obtaining maximum oxygen supply.
They attach descriptive text to a particular calendar date, may be used to record a daily record of activities or accomplishments, or describe progress with a related to-do entry.
They repair offshore oil platforms and attach cables to sunken ships to hoist them.
They release sporozoites that attach to the microvilli of the epithelial cells of the small intestine.
They help for example earthworms to attach to the surface and prevent backsliding during peristaltic motion.
They attach their nests under bridges, canyon walls, wells and abandoned mine shafts.
They still have grooved maxillae and their tentoriolacinial muscle does not attach to the mesal stipial base.
They attach to the cusps of the atrioventricular valves ( a. k. a. the mitral and tricuspid valves ) via the chordae tendinae and contract to prevent inversion or prolapse of these valves.
They attach themselves to the plant and secrete a powdery wax layer ( therefore the name mealybug ) used for protection while they suck the plant juices.
They are held at the top where the power lines attach.
They then kidnap Commander Sinclair, the commander of Babylon 5, and attach him to the device.
They allow the philodendron to attach itself to a tree or other plant, and they allow it to collect water and nutrients.
They and things
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
They are concerned with all things traded in, securities, bonds, cocao, coffee, soybeans, cotton, tin, oats, etc..
They have to release the things and beings on which or whom they still hang from the life before.
" They also apply these judgments to other things that they encounter, and will usually deem something " cool " if it is associated with violence, sex or the macabre.
They found, among other things, that urban coyotes tend to live longer than their rural counterparts, kill rodents and small pets, and live anywhere from parks to industrial areas.
They look out for deductions, or things that go wrong, such as a dropped stunt.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised.
They are exhorted to mind things that are above, to mortify every evil principle of their nature, and to put on the new man.
They should present information that is clear and interesting and relate this new information and material to things the student already knows about.
They explain that they keep the Earth's natural order of things in balance.
For example, he wrote: " They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no other did, accomplished the mystery of betrayal ; by him all things were thus thrown into confusion.
They come from what is oldest in Coleridge's nature, his uninvited and irrepressible intuition, magical and rare, vivid beyond common sight of common things, sweet beyond sound of things heard.
They don't possess any materialistic things and also don't use the basic services like that of a phone, electricity etc.
They usually had hand-selected resistors in order to improve things such as voltage offset and drift.
They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old, making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock.
They argue, for example, that physical magnitudes such as electrical charge cannot be explicitly defined either, in terms of more basic things, but only in terms of what they do ( such as attracting and repelling other electrical charges ).
They stress that property is not a relationship between people and things, but a relationship between people with regard to things.
They see as giving exclusive instructions about who is to be baptized: " Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you " ( verses 19-20, NKJV ).
They are also identified with the traditional Greek gods, so one henad might be Apollo and be the cause of all things apollonian, while another might be Helios and be the cause of all sunny things.
They are paid to connect themselves to things that can be directly related to their roles ; sport shoes, tennis rackets, golf balls, or completely irrelevant things like soft drinks, popcorn poppers and panty hose.
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