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Bird's feet are normally four-toed, with three toes in front primarily for gripping and a fourth which may, in some way, help minorly with balance. There are many exceptions, especially in the woodpecker family, in which most have two toes front and two toes back (a phenotype that has probably been evolved especially for holding fast to trees and supporting the body). Several boreal species have only three altogether! ...
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| feedback |
A sequence of interactions that determines the response of a system to an initial perturbation. Feedbacks may either amplify (positive feedback) or reduce (negative feedback) the ultimate state of the system.
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| feeding |
(Rare.) Descriptive of a windstorm of increasing intensity.
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| feedback |
Feedback in a closed loop system represents the return signal or response of the system to input instruction.
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| feedback inhibition |
A post-translational control mechanism in which the end product of a biochemical pathway inhibits the activity of the first enzyme of this pathway.
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