- In biology, an
integument is the
tissue surrounding an organism's body or an
organ within, such as skin, a husk, s****, germ or rind. The term is derived...
- of
total body
weight and
covers 1.5 to 2 m2 of
surface area. The skin (
integument) is a
composite organ, made up of at
least two
major layers of tissue:...
- Marl
Formation of
Harrana in Jordan,
knowledge of the
nature of
mosasaur integument was
mainly based on very few
accounts describing early mosasaur fossils...
-
contains the
female reproductive cells. It
consists of
three parts: the
integument,
forming its
outer layer, the
nucellus (or
remnant of the megasporangium)...
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patterns and
sheets that are
highly recognizable.
Sometimes the soft
integument of a
snake is
colored differently than
their hard scales. This is often...
- form a
testa from the
outer integument and a
tegmen from the
inner integument while unitegmic seeds have only one
integument. Usually,
parts of the testa...
-
eyelids is not
readily visible and has a pale, pink color. The two main
integumental muscles of a cat are the
platysma and the
cutaneous maximus. The cutaneous...
- may
simply be the
result of
distortion of the skull. The
evolution of
integument in
therapsids is
poorly known, and
there are few
fossils that provide...
- The
first Kulindadromeus fossil was
found in Russia. Its feather-like
integument is
evidence for
protofeathers being basal to
Ornithischia and possibly...
- to true feathers,
recent analysis has
suggested that the feather-like
integument found in
ornithischians may have
evolved independently of coelurosaurs...