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a curvilinear indentation more or less profound; differs from emargina in not being angulated; an excavation as if scooped out. See retuse.
Ãâó: www.biology.lsu.edu/heydrjay/ThomasSay/terms.html
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| sinistral |
Shell coiled in a left-hand spiral, ie counter-clockwise when viewed from the apex. Left-handed (as opposed to right-handed) in the gastropod shell having the aperture on the left side of the shell facing the observer when the apex is held upward. See also Dextral.
Ãâó: www.fish.washington.edu/naturemapping/mollusks/glo...
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| sinus |
A bend or embayment in growth lines, in the outer lip of a gastropod, or in the attachment scar of the mantle in bivalves. See also pallial sinus. Sinusigerid protoconch. Multispiral embryonic shell, ending in a T-shaped claw, that supports velum in certain free-swimming gastropod larvae.
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| single nucleotide polymorphism |
(SNP) -- DNA sequence variations that occur when a single nucleotide (A, T, C, or G) in the genome sequence is altered.
Ãâó: www.cdc.gov/genomics/gtesting/ACCE/FBR/CF/CFGlossa...
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| sinuate |
wavy; S-shaped.
Ãâó: gmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/BayOfFundy/glossQ-T.ht...
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